MIM Notes 194      September 15, 1999

Church of Satan platform on eugenics is not scientific

The Associated Press reported the following on August 7, "A 
doctoral student has uncovered a dark secret in Vermont's past: 
Scientists in the 1920s and 1930s had an active eugenics plan to 
eliminate the state's 'degenerate' bloodlines and replenish 'old 
pioneer stock.'

In a book to be published later this year, Nancy Gallagher details 
the plan called the 'Vermont Eugenics Survey.'

The 12-year survey, developed by an independent team of social 
scientists, studied 'good' and 'bad' families in the state and 
listed those which it determined needed to be eliminated, 
Gallagher told The Boston Globe for a story in Saturday's 
editions.

The report was circulated among policymakers at the time and led 
to the passage of a 1931 sterilization law.

The law resulted in the sterilization of several hundred poor, 
rural Vermonters, Abenaki Indians and others deemed unfit to 
procreate."(1)

This little blurb above from the Associated Press caused MIM to 
re-open polemics with the Church of Satan (COS), which is an 
organization that has eugenics in its five main points for a 
platform.(2) MIM has engaged in polemics with the Church of Satan 
over the last few years. Some in the Church of Satan consider 
themselves communists; others believe they are militant 
materialists to use Leninist phraseology.

Dear Church of Satan:

Eugenics is a COS pipe-dream. Anyone who has ever attempted a few 
statistical simulations knows that eugenics can't work. There are 
too many genes out there -- even within the individual. Never mind 
entropy; what do you think a gene is? It's connected to 
reproduction. Do you think it can just go away? Have you worked 
out what would happen even if you succeeded in killing off 99.9% 
of humyns? I mean have you worked it through in a statistical 
simulation from generation to generation? Lewontin has and we 
pointed you toward him: why don't you get it?

85% of genetic variation would still be present if we killed off 
everyone in the planet except for the tiny Kikuyu tribe of East 
Africa. 0.1% of the world population would be over 5 million 
people. Do you read anything besides LaVey? Try Not In Our Genes, 
R.C. Lewontin et. al., (NY: Pantheon Books, 1984), p. 126.)

Tani, a Church of Satan member, replies that we share genetic 
commonalties with monkeys. That was her reply last time MIM raised 
this. But the point is not what we share as humyns amongst 
ourselves or with monkeys. The point is eugenics cannot work.

The only thing eugenics does is inflame the stupid white herd 
against the Abenaki, Blacks etc. and create more Hobbessian 
behavior. The same with the stupid LaVey line on crime -- another 
guaranteed failure. It seems like your recruiting strategy is to 
shoot for right-wing Christians.

So why does the COS stick to this idea and defend it as one of its 
five main points? It's a holdover from Nazi Christianity. When 
LaVey wrote about it, did he ever defend it? I read gobs and gobs 
of COS stuff, but there is no actual REFERENCE to anything 
scientific on eugenics. Yet, there has been tons of material 
documenting its history and scientific impossibility.

We at MIM refer you to books such as  Not In Our Genes and 
Dialectical Biologist actually written by biologists and you folks 
go right on saying the same old crud on cue from the herd. That 
right there is the hint that COS has failed to escape 
Christianity.

Eugenics is the PERFECT Nazi pipedream, because it cannot work; 
yet it generates strife. Notice I did not even raise whether you 
would kill off the correct 99.9% of us. Any huge plan like that if 
it is not just a pipe-dream has mega implementation problems. Yet, 
even if it succeeds in zooming in on protecting one chosen group, 
it cannot work, because its premise is flawed.

Notes:
1. http://www.cnn.com/US/9908/07/vermont.eugenics.ap/index.html
2. http://www.churchofsatan.com/home. html ; see "Pentagonal 
Revisionism: A Five Point Program," 1988, by Anton Szandor LaVey.