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Originally Posted by coadie
Racism is with us since the tower of Babel. It was cranked up a notch when Darwin came along and folks bought into his theory of ecvolution. Since he claimed we came from apes, he also claimed caucasians were more evolved in distance from the ape brethern.
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LOL. More misapprehensions from coadie.
There is a site in Brazil where dozens of Australian "negroids" were found slaughtered. This site dates back to about 12,000 years ago; long before coadie's "Tower of Babel." The "Indians" of Terra de Fuego (at the tip of South America) are genetically related to Australian Aborigines. Since the remains of other related people are found at far more ancient sites throughout South America, it stands to reason that they were pushed out of their homes by other "Indians." Racism amongst the "Native Americans" was rife.
To find the source of racism coadie really needs to look no further than the story of Cain and Abel. One brother hated the other and killed him. This is the seminal germ of all forms of racism.
Even Darwin, with his "Common Descent" recognized the truths found in this account. Darwin did appear to error when he worried that the
culturally and technologically advanced European "races" might displace the indigenousness people around the world. (The Europeans were technologically more "advanced" than others, NOT biologically more "evolved)." A post graduate level course in genetics at any Ivy League University would have helped coadie to understand this. The rest of us can read the best selling book "
Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond.
Darwin needlessly worried about the loss of "indigenous" people because he had apparently not taken into account the fact that the peoples of the tropics were often more adapted to those environments than their northern brethren. He also seems to have not foreseen the onset of the debilitating sense of ennui that enveloped Europe after the World Wars of the 20th Century.
This climate led Europeans away from colonizing the lands of "brown people" and into a program of importing "brown people" into Europe to make up for declining birth rates. In the end, the technologically less advanced people may end up inheriting Europe from their more "advanced" predecessors much like the way the Germanic "barbarians" inherited the old Roman Empire.
The Christian Faith itself was the primary source of "racist" ideas throughout most of the church age. However, eliminating Christian dogma from the debate as the more extreme secularists have proposed did not do away with racism. Instead, the old tribal feelings still lingered and hatred is still rampant.
You can't stop people from killing one another by removing their religious differences alone. People are clever. They will find a lot of reasons to kill one another. The massacres of the professed "atheists" of communism shows that class and societal ranks are "reasons" to kill and hate. 200 years of Religious Wars in Europe shows that finding a common creed is illusive and tends toward war and hatred.
The German expansion in the East - begun as a series of Christian Crusades against the Lett speaking peoples around the Baltic and culminating in the Holocaust carried out by the Nazis shows how religion can be made to serve evil ends.
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