Dennis Prager is on Part VIII of his series. Prager’s new year resolution was to better explain Judeo-Christian values and their meanings to people who don’t have a clue about these things.
I’m enjoying the series quite a bit more than the running commentary about whether the Liberals at their convention should have adopted the resolution legalizing prostitution and pot-smoking; and about the gay magazine “FAB” displaying their semi-naked gay man dressed in wedding garb giving Stephen Harper the finger on a postcard they hope people will send to him. I assure you this is much more intelligent reading.
This one deals with the term “Judeo-Christian.”
[…] Until the twentieth century, European Christianity, as embodied in the Church, de-emphasized its Jewish roots, and it usually persecuted Jews (though never ordered, indeed opposed, their physical annihilation — annihilation required a secular ideology, Nazism). No Christian state referred to itself as “Judeo-Christian.” That identity arose with the Christians of America, who from the outset were at least as deeply immersed in the Old Testament as in the New.
The American Christian identified with the Jews rather than saw himself as simply superseding them.These American Christians chose a Torah verse — “Proclaim liberty throughout the land” — for their Liberty Bell; learned and taught Hebrew; adopted the Jewish notion of being chosen to be a light unto the nations; saw their leaving Europe as a second exodus; had every one of its presidents take the oath of office on an Old and New Testament Bible — and while every president mentioned God in his inaugural address, not one mentioned Jesus. [… Read the whole thing (3 minutes) …]
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