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American Christianity and the New Eugenics: Consumerism, Human Genetics, and the Challenge to Christian Personhood

American Christianity’s participation in the twentieth-century movement commonly termed the “old eugenics” helped enable eugenic policies that contributed to human rights abuses and social divisions. While churches have attempted to restore their reputations from the stain of that period, what some are calling the “new” or “consumer” eugenics has emerged a century later with markedly…
Charles McDaniel
February 14, 2023