tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post219327920600253339..comments2024-03-28T10:44:30.518-06:00Comments on American Creation: Religion Dispatches: "What Do We Mean By 'Judeo-Christian'?"Brad Harthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17669677047039491864noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1237087217187172116.post-29215756509897363422014-12-31T19:30:05.466-07:002014-12-31T19:30:05.466-07:00The article is good as history, but it's rathe...The article is good as history, but it's rather obviously the work of a liberal Jewish Democrat.<br /><br />“Judeo-Christian” as used in the current religio-culture war is a convenient neologism to describe what Dennis Prager calls "ethical monotheism," and which comports closely to traditional Biblical morality.<br /><br />It's useful--although not historically accurate--to apply it retroactively to the American Founding, which although was conspicuously absent of Jews, was still monotheistic and generally in harmony with biblical morality.<br /><br />To fast forward to the present day, there is an irony that 'conservative" protestantism, which was marked by a great hostility to Catholicism not to mention Jews, is now the greatest ally of both, as their common enemy are the militantly secular Children of the Enlightenment.<br /><br />[I use "Enlightenment" poetically here--it's argued by some that our current modernity is actually the enemy of the Enlightenment.<br /><br />http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/415]Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.com