Fox News guest: Scientific 'enlightenment and reason' led to the Holocaust

A Fox News guest on Thursday slammed President Barack Obama's transportation secretary nominee, connecting him to an 18th century scientific movement that embraced reason, which she said was partially to blame for the Holocaust.

Fox News host Steve Doocy asked Penny Nance, CEO of the Christian activist group Concerned Women for America, if she could make any sense out of why Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx would proclaim May 2 as both a "Day of Prayer" and a "Day of Reason."

"He comes from North Carolina, which has the 7th highest church attendance, clearly he's not running for re-election since he's up for transportation secretary," she opined. "You know, G. K. Chesterton said that the Doctrine of Original Sin is the only one which we have 3,000 years of empirical evidence to back up. Clearly, we need faith as a component and it's just silly for us to say otherwise."

"You know, the Age of Enlightenment and Reason gave way to moral relativism. And moral relativism is what led us all the way down the dark path to the Holocaust... Dark periods of history is what we arrive at when we leave God out of the equation."

Foxx, who attends Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in Charlotte, first declared a Day of Reason in 2012 at the request of Charlotte Atheists & Agnostics.

"I would like to actually thank [Charlotte] Mayor Anthony Fox for proclaiming a Day of Reason at our request," Charlotte Atheists & Agnostics President Shawn Murphy told Raw Story in 2012. "So, we do have support locally. … We requested a proclamation from the mayor’s office to proclaim it a day of reason and he was kind enough to oblige."

Watch this video from Fox News' Fox & Friends, broadcast May 2, 2013.