Nazism and Evolutionary Humanism

 These lines from Harari's book stood out:

Even though liberal humanism sanctifies humans, it does not deny the existence of God, and is, in fact, founded on montheist beliefs. The liberal belief in the free and sacred nature of each individual is a direct legacy of the traditional Christian belief in free and eternal individual souls. Without recourse to eternal souls and a Creator God, it becomes embarrassingly difficult for liberals to explain what is so special about individual Sapiens.

Another important sect is socialist humanism. Socialists believe that "humanity" is collective rather than individualistic. They hold as sacred not the inner voice of each individual, but the species  Homo sapiens as a whole. Whereas liberal humanism seeks as much freedom as possible for individual humans, socialist humanism seeks equality between all humans. According to socialists, inequality is the worst blasphemy against the sanctity of humanity, because it privileges peripheral qualities of humans over their universal essence. For example, when the rich are privileged over the poor, it means that we value money more than the universal essence of all humans, which is the same for rich and poor alike.

Like Liberal humanism, socialist humanism is built on monotheist foundation. The idea that all humans are equal is a revamped version monotheist conviction that all souls are equal before God. The only humanist sect that has actually broken loose from traditional monotheism is the evolutionary humanism, whose most famous representatives were [are] the  Nazis. What distinguishes the Nazis from other humanist sects was the different definition of "humanity", one deeply influenced by the theory of evolution. In contrast to other humanists, the Nazis believed that humankind is not something universal and eternal, but rather a mutable species that can evolve or degenerate. Man can evolve into superman, or degenerate into subhuman.

Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind, (pp. 230, 231)

This is curious, since we anecdotally observed human efforts to sideline monotheistic ideologies throughout years/decades/centuries and under various projects. But the most modern attempt is nothing less than prime debauchery and barbarity. More than anything, this dark period indicates the perils of the hegemony of anti-enlightenment sects. Any type of forced distillation of a racial/ethnic, ideological, religious, or cultural milieu is an anti-enlightenment aspiration, and its outcomes have hitherto proven to be tragic human milestones.