Guy Incognito
DP Veteran
- Joined
- May 14, 2010
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- Libertarian
If you find yourself regularly using that adjective "Judeo-Christian" to describe, say, your values or religious traditions, I want you to please stop.
There isn't really a "Judeo-Christian tradition" that serves no genuine academic purpose. The only real purpose it serves is as a manipulation of language to fit the "Clash of Civilization" theory, as if the Islamic tradition is somehow fundamentally alien to the Judeo-Christian one.
In reality all three are part of the same religious tradition, and form a family of religions, which encompasses all schools of Judaism, Catholics, Orthodox, Protestants, Mormons, Rastafarians, and numerous other religions that share these fundamental values of love and compassion and salvation by appeal to an omnipotent monotheistic deity. So when you say "Judeo-Christian," to refer to your values or your country's religious tradition, the word you're groping for there is more properly Judeo-Christian-Islamic, or what we could call "Abrahamic." It is ahistorical, and purposely exclusive of the Islamic tradition so as to fit the party's agitprop narrative. Don't buy into.
Here's a solution: if you're not really aware enough of history to understand that the term "Judeo-Christian" is BS, just don't talk about history to begin with.
There isn't really a "Judeo-Christian tradition" that serves no genuine academic purpose. The only real purpose it serves is as a manipulation of language to fit the "Clash of Civilization" theory, as if the Islamic tradition is somehow fundamentally alien to the Judeo-Christian one.
In reality all three are part of the same religious tradition, and form a family of religions, which encompasses all schools of Judaism, Catholics, Orthodox, Protestants, Mormons, Rastafarians, and numerous other religions that share these fundamental values of love and compassion and salvation by appeal to an omnipotent monotheistic deity. So when you say "Judeo-Christian," to refer to your values or your country's religious tradition, the word you're groping for there is more properly Judeo-Christian-Islamic, or what we could call "Abrahamic." It is ahistorical, and purposely exclusive of the Islamic tradition so as to fit the party's agitprop narrative. Don't buy into.
Here's a solution: if you're not really aware enough of history to understand that the term "Judeo-Christian" is BS, just don't talk about history to begin with.