The Mythology of Humanism and the Battle Against It — Update
This is a follow-up to an article I wrote recently in which I criticised the ideas of Humanist Julian Huxley, and his enthusiasm for eugenics.
By coincidence, starting next week the BBC are beginning a two-part documentary on the subject of eugenics, the subtitle being Science’s Greatest Scandal. TV programme-guide Radio Times says this of the first episode: “The controversial theory of eugenics was a driving force behind the Nazi death camps. Adherents believed it was possible to improve the genetic quality of the human race by discouraging reproduction by people with ‘undesirable’ traits. Journalist Angela Saini and disability rights activist Adam Pearson reveal how these shocking beliefs permeated the British establishment in the first half of the 20th century, gaining influential supporters such as Winston Churchill and Marie Stopes”.
This just goes to show the dangers inherent in the onward march of atheistic science, and the rise of the Scientific Dictatorship. Yet in Huxley’s eyes eugenics represents progress, something desirable, part of his Humanist agenda. Humans everywhere, beware!
