Regular readers know the drill: I point to Dennis Prager’s series on Judeo-Christian values, which he started this year as a new year’s resolution to help normal people understand, well, Judeo-Christian values. This is not an effort to convert all you heathens, although that’d be great, it’s just interesting reading and intellectually stimulating. Oh OK I admit I’m hoping something will catch fire with you—the values contained therein if nothing else.
Warning: Reading this makes you smarter. Liberals are apparently against that.
Canada needs this.
His latest installment explains the role of the Jew and how many of them have wandered from that role, to their own detriment and ours.
The Jews’ mission is as it always has been—to bring the world to ethical monotheism. Ethical monotheism means there is one God and therefore one moral standard that He has revealed, and He holds all humans accountable to it. This is the point of Jewish chosenness. God chose a people—a particularly small undistinguished people (chosenness has never implied inherent superiority)—to make the world aware of the God of ethical demands and moral judgment. Jews have never been required to bring the world to Judaism, but they were chosen to bring the world to God and to the values found in the Torah and the rest of the Old Testament.
Were Jews true to their mission, they would stand alongside Christians who work to bring the Torah’s values to the world.
There’s an archive available there of the whole series.
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