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tific claims of Darwinism, according to which the idea
that all lives have equal value and need to be protected

was merely a "traditional dogma" and allegedly a vio-
lation of scientific truth. 102 No rational person of good
conscience could ever accept these claims, but eminent
Germans strongly adopted them at one time.
Not just in Germany but in a great many parts of
the world, Social Darwinism rejected the moral values,
along with virtues such as compassion, protection,
cooperation, sympathy and patience taught by the
Divine religions. In place of these virtues, it claimed
that killing those who were incompatible with soci-
ety's interests—through destruction and ruthlessness,
all of which belong to satan, the great misleader of
humanity—was actually superior. The hatred they felt
for Divine religions lies at the heart of the Nazis' enmi-
ty towards the Jews.
Yet neo-Nazism still survives in the world, show-
ing that this sick ideology continues to pose a danger.
No matter what name it may go by, the lifestyle that

Social Darwinism advances consists solely of conflict,
struggle, bloodshed, war, suffering and fear. Death
camps like Auschwitz are where Social Darwinism is
put into practice. Darwinism inevitably leads to Social
Darwinism. In a world where Social Darwinism again
comes to rule, new Auschwitzes will be inevitable.

People dying or about to die of starvation at the
Auschwitz concentration camp, in which between
three and four million people were killed. The Na-
zis' obsession with the false idea of the master ra-
ce, which they based on social Darwinism, led to
millions of innocents dying in this manner.
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