More Hollywood BS: “Inherit the Wind”
This article is from Henry Makow’s site: http://www.henrymakow.com and http://www.henrymakow.org
Henry runs an excellent site, and I highly recommend it.
This article has special significance for me, because when I was acting, the stage version of “Inherit the Wind” was always taught to us a “classic” and one of the best plays ever written. I’ve since learned that almost all of the actors, directors, playwrights, producers, etc. that I used to admire were or are communist scumbags, and almost all of the plays that I acted in were communist propaganda disguised as entertainment.
Television is a tool of indoctrination. That’s why television shows are called programs: they exist to program your mind. The days of responsible programming are long gone. Almost every show is either a hidden or blatant attempt to indoctrinate viewers into accepting a satanic agenda, with two of the worst offenders being Disney and Nickelodeon. Movies and music are even worse. Anyway, here’s the article:
“Inherit the Wind”- How the Illuminati Brainwashed Christians
April 23, 2014
(left, In the movie, Clarence Darrow, played by Spencer Tracy, interrogates William Jennings Bryan, played by Frederic March.)
The movie “Inherit the Wind” (1960) based
on the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, helped make
Americans adopt the doctrine of evolution.
James Perloff shows how Hollywood
distorted the facts to advance the Illuminati agenda.
“We are constantly, by means of our press, arousing a blind confidence in these theories… Do not suppose for a moment that these statements are empty words: think carefully of the successes we arranged for Darwinism.” (Protocols 2:2-3)
“Now only years divide us from the moment of the complete wrecking of that Christian religion.” (Protocol 17:2)
by James Perloff
(henrymakow.com)
Darwinism used spurious “science” (evolution) to supplant God as man’s creator.
Perhaps nothing advanced evolution so effectively as the play and movie Inherit the Wind. It depicts the 1925 “Monkey Trial.” The defendant was John Scopes, a Dayton, Tennessee schoolteacher charged with violating the Butler Act, a state law that forbade teaching that man descended from lower forms.
Leading Scopes’s defense was famed attorney Clarence Darrow. Assisting the prosecution was former Democratic Presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan. The most common impression about this trial is that Darrow humiliated Bryan in cross-examination, scoring a powerful victory for Darwinism over religious fundamentalism.
Public beliefs regarding the trial are based mostly on Inherit the Wind, which portrayed a battle between enlightened evolutionists and imbecilic Christians. My book Tornado in a Junkyard compares the screenplay (the Oscar-nominated Spencer Tracy version) to the trial transcript and other records. Here are highlights. (The complete comparison is posted on my blog.)
THE MOVIE opens with the grim town minister and other prudes marching to the local high school. They arrest young Scopes, who is forthrightly teaching biology using Darwin.
IN REALITY, Scopes was not a biology teacher. He taught math, but had briefly substituted for a biology teacher during an illness. The ACLU recruited him to challenge the Butler Act. Scopes never taught evolution. He wrote in his autobiography, Center of the Storm: “Darrow had been afraid for me to go on the stand. Darrow realized that I was not a science teacher and he was afraid that if I were put on the stand I would be asked if I actually taught biology.”
“If the boys had got their review of evolution from me, I was unaware of it. I didn’t remember teaching it.”
IN THE MOVIE, we see Scopes in jail, a persecuted martyr. Aroused by the town preacher’s sermon, a lynch mob gathers outside the jail, burning Scopes in effigy. A rock sails through the window, injuring him.
IN REALITY, Scopes didn’t spent one second in jail. Violating the Butler Act was not an imprisonable offense. Furthermore, no bad blood existed between Scopes and Dayton’s people, who were delighted that the trial put Dayton on the map.
IN THE MOVIE, Clarence Darrow arrives, bravely taking the case singled-handedly. The local Christians boo him; a mob outside his hotel threatens a lynching.
IN REALITY, Darrow, left, brought a team of lawyers, and here’s what he himself said of his Dayton experience: “Yet, I came here a perfect stranger and I can say what I have said before that I have not found upon anybody’s part – any citizen here in this town or outside, the slightest discourtesy. I have been better treated, kindlier and more hospitably than I fancied would have been the case in the north.”
IN THE MOVIE, William Jennings Bryan is an ignorant bigot opposed to science. He says: “The people of this state have made it very clear that they do not want this zoological hogwash slobbered around the schoolrooms!” “The way of scientism is the way of darkness.”
IN REALITY, Bryan was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. What he really said about science during the trial: “Give science a fact and it is not only invincible, but of incalculable service to man.”
IN THE MOVIE, the judge disallows any testimony from eminent scientists whom Darrow has brought. The judge declares “zoology” (which he can barely pronounce) and other sciences “irrelevant to the case.”
IN REALITY, Darrow called as a witness zoologist Maynard Metcalf, who testified at length. Bryan, left, quickly recognized that the atheistic Darrow was orchestrating a parade of witnesses to promote Darwinism. (The trial was being broadcast on radio nationwide, and reported in newspapers globally.) Bryan asked Judge John Raulston: “Will we be entitled to cross-examine their witnesses?” Raulston said they would.
This enraged Darrow, who knew Bryan would ask his witnesses embarrassing questions like “Where are Darwin’s missing links?” and “Are you an atheist?” Darrow therefore had his remaining witnesses submit affidavits. These totaled 60,000 words and occupy 54 pages of trial transcript; excerpts were read in court. The decision to stay off the stand was not made by a bigoted judge, but by Darrow himself, to elude cross-examination. Ironically, most of the “evidence” Darrow’s experts discussed – Piltdown Man, “useless vestigial organs” – are long discredited.
THE “DEBATE”
But what of that famous “debate” where Darrow supposedly trounced Bryan, symbolizing Darwinian triumph over the Bible?
It was not a debate. Darrow called Bryan as a witness. Thus only Darrow could ask questions, completely controlling the exchange. He peppered Bryan with anti-Bible questions he had spent years developing. On the preceding evening, he rehearsed his inquisition with an associate; Bryan, on the other hand, had to answer everything off-the-cuff.
Naturally, with these advantages, Darrow looked better than Bryan – but not nearly as decisively as in Inherit the Wind, which grossly distorts the event. For example, it has Bryan say that the Bible defines sex as “original sin” (nothing resembling this was said.) And when the movie’s cross-examination finishes, Bryan cracks up mentally, wildly shouting the names of the Bible’s books (another complete fabrication).
Hollywood distortions aside, why did Bryan place himself in a position where only Darrow could go on offense? The answer is simple. Darrow tricked Bryan into believing that, after this, their roles would reverse: Bryan would be able to question Darrow about Darwinism. This was important to Bryan, since he had been denied cross-examination of Darrow’s “experts.”
But the next morning, Bryan sat stunned as Darrow changed Scopes’s plea from “not guilty” to “guilty,” thus ending the trial.
Darrow’s words to the judge: “We will ask the court to bring in the jury and instruct the jury to find the defendant guilty.”
Darrow had no intention of going on the stand and letting Bryan get revenge by quizzing him on evolution. The trial had NEVER been about John Scopes’s guilt or innocence. Its sole purpose was to disseminate Darwinism and assail Christianity.
But in Inherit the Wind, Darrow fights to the bitter end for his client. The backwoods jury finds Scopes “guilty.”
Gloom falls on the defendant and his noble attorney, as “bigotry and ignorance” have won the day.
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James Perloff is author of several books; his latest is Truth Is a Lonely Warrior.
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