Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, conversations on faith and culture.

I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics at Talbot School

of Theology in Biola University.

I'm your co-host Sean McDow, Professor of Apologetics at Talbot Theological Seminary,

Biola University.

We're here today with our friend Dr. Richard Weicert,

who is a professor of history at Cal State Stanislaus

and an expert in the period particularly leading up to

World War II with the rise of Nazisism in Germany. Richard you've written a lot

about the worldview, the ethics, the religion of Nazism.

Several books on this, Hitler's Ethic,

from Darwin to Hitler, and a new book that's just

recently come out called Hitler's Religion.

And we'll talk a little bit about that

as the time goes along.

He also has a book that's about two years old that I would highly recommend to you called

the Death of Humanity and the Case for Life, where he tackles a lot of these current bioethical issues

but does so from the perspective of a historian which you don't see very often in

the discussion of these issues. So Richard Richard, let me start with this.

I've heard some professors at various universities

who are antagonistic to Christianity

hold the view that if it were not for Christianity,

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