Materialism --> Fascism

Where Darwin leads.

In Nazi Germany's case, Darwin was helped along by an influential, 65,000 word (roughly 300-page) anti-Semitic tract written by Martin Luther, a point driven home by William Shirer in his indispensable "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich."

Secularism leads inevitably to more intolerance and absolutism, not less, as it undermines human dignity and the respect for life which are the pillars of the Western world. This is the key message Pope Benedict XVI is bringing America during his visit.

The notion that materialists are more tolerant than the religious in the West may be refuted by following the news. Galileo was treaded far more humanely by the Church than a climate scientist who notes the "hockey stick" is fictitious and that global temperatures don't seem to have risen since 1998 is treated by the materialists.