Of Treacheries, Tykes, and the Trinity

January 12th, 2009
by John Pacheco

The twentieth century has been a brutal century. It is the only century which has had the dubious honour of exterminating the lives of hundreds of millions of human beings because of ideology. Much of the blame for this brutality found its impetus in Social Darwinism, a view which applied biological evolution to social evolution. The former is concerned with the evolution of species through the mutation of genes, while the latter is concerned with the evolution of society through “optimal natural means.” The Social Darwinists of the early twentieth century agreed that the ‘problem’ with society was its theistic and Judeo-Christian principles which favoured the inalienable rights of each person over the Darwinian belief in utilitarianism — which espoused the greatest good for the greatest number. the rest