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" Judeo-Christian" is an oxymoron. I think the author is off base.
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SSG Diane R.
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I tend to agree with you regarding this term, but the article is very detailed and a good primer about the forces that have shaped our world since WW2.
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I see it more as a good example of cherry picking events to construct a mosaic for a predetermined narrative. I hardly think a few staff members of a school in Frankfurt, Germany "stole our culture". There are many reason society has changed and many reasons people have left "the church" (often said as if it is a singular organization). The article fails to mention the many failings of "the church", religious figures, intolerant holier-than-thou believers, and hypocritical politicians preaching religion (while violating the same) that have all worked to drive followers from the flock.

He complains of the changes in the 1960s, so maybe the Second Vatican Council's 1965 document Nostra Aetate is to blame for everything. Prior to that most Christians were often taught that the Jews killed Jesus, but now we have the oxymoronic "Judeo-Christian roots". Isn't the invention of that word an example of "multi-culturalism" the author argues against? The term was coined in the 19th Century and used for most of its existence in a negative manner to describe the discontinuities of world views between the Jewish and Christian religions. It was not until the late 1940s that term gained popularity and a new meaning because it was used to actively market Judaism as integral to the Western world's history after WWII and the Holocaust. That marketing campaign has been more successful than the "A Diamond is Forever" campaign launched about the same time.
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CW5 Jack Cardwell
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Interesting.. Thanks for the share.
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