Poor Kirk Cameron. From adorable childhood star of Growing Pains to washed up has been. In what appears to be a clumsy effort to recapture those glory days of youth, Cameron has gone full creationist, and now he and his creationist buddies have come up with a crack plan to rid the world of that pesky science:
The 'Growing Pains' alum released a video last week announcing that on Nov. 19, he and other Creationist activists will distribute a special 'Species' [Darwin's Origin of Species] with a 50-page intro that slams evolution and paints Darwin as both racist and misogynistic and explicitly highlights "Adolph Hitler's undeniable connection to the theory."
Fundamentalists sure seem anxious to compare anything they don't like to Hitler these days. Since Mr. Cameron kindly opened up Godwin's box, I wonder how they'd react if the same tactic was used to smear their religious beliefs. Say if a bunch of us atheists made the same false association by distributing thousands of Bibles with an insert at the beginning quoting Mein Kampf showing 'Adolph Hitler's undeniable connection to Christianity.'
Anyone with a shred of integrity knows that that would be a sleazy move. Hitler came to power in a predominantly Christian nation. He certainly misused Christianity -- by about a hundred to one over evolution -- to justify and further his perverse agenda, not because he practiced its tenets, but rather to manipulate the faithful. That's not a knock on Christianity any more than it's a knock on evolutionary biology. It's a big knock on Hitler though, and anyone who employs similar tactics, eh Kirk?