Judeo-Christian is a contradiction in terms

Okay, responsitime. Thanks for the welcome by the way, and the definition. Once again, I'm new. Thanks for kindness. While there is a common body of literature that is holy to both Christians and Jews, the focus of the religions are so very disparate that it's hard to see how they could be at all related, other than starting from a similar body of text. Indeed, if you scroll down on the Jewish World Review site, it asserts that as evidence for the Judeo-Christianity of the USA, coins read "In G-d we trust". Which, upon examination, they don't. They SHOULD, if they wished to appeal to Jewish law and culture (and indeed, Judaism without Jewish law is just a series of interesting stories) but they clearly chose to appeal to the Christian sensibility and tradition. Further down on that site, it says that America is Judeo-Christian because it holds allegiance to the G-d of Israel. Ignoring the validity of that comment for a bit, I'd like to point out that Christians worship a God, and that God has many, many similarities to the G-d of Israel, but they are not the same. Just like Allah and G-d are not the same. It's a very widely held belief among Christians that they're the same G-d, but biblically, philosophically and characteristically, we're discussing two very different deities. For example: The sh'ma is a very important prayer, central to Jewish life, recounting important characteristics of G-d in a sort of loose verse. It goes like this. Sh'ma y'Isroel Adonai Elohaynu Adonai E'hod. Translates into: Hear me, O Israel The Lord is G-d The Lord is One. The one-ness part is the important bit. G-d is one singular being (or, in some interpretations, he's everything that exists). The important thing is that there's a uniqueness to him, and a sense of individualism. Jews don't have a pantheon. We've just got the one guy. Christians, on the other hand, worship God as a sort of triumvirate. There isn't just the one. I have no idea why Jewish World Review would state This sort of divergence is common amongst any factioning of a religion, but the true point of seperation is, of course, the person of Jesus. Ask a Christian what the most important part of their religion is, and they would probably say "Jesus came and died for our sins". Ask a Jew that question, and you'll probably get no consensus whatsoever but certainly Jesus dying for sins isn't a part of it. With such a massive disparity--The God isn't the same, the focal point of history and life isn't the same, the afterlife isn't the same...it's incredibly strange to connect the two, and any connection of them certainly doesn't represent the common, popular usage in describing moral issues of the day. Any statement on shared sins doesn't really apply. Any appeal to the laws of the Old Testament also don't apply. Really, unless Abraham or Moses appears in Tennessee, I can't see how one could accurately describe anything modern as Judeo-Christian. Judeo-Christian could probably be applied to those very early churches, the ones that Saul was so intent on ending before he was converted and became Paul. However, with very few exceptions, those churches have no real cultural or theological heirs. What modern Christianity is would be more similar to "Greco-Christianity", as it stems from the Greek philosophical, theological and cultural base. --- As for the other thing, the Judeo-Christian Alliance, that's entirely made up of protestant churches. It may be ABOUT Jews (or at least about Israel) but it isn't directed towards, nor is it created by, Jewish people. Like so many things, it's a Christian approximation of Judaism, not the real thing. But yes, there is a movement by Christians to support a Jewish Israel. The reason for their support, however, is not at all Judeo-Christian. It's all Christian--specifically, the book of Revelations. To get Jesus to come back, several things need to happen. One of those things is a Jewish return to Israel (I think, though I may be wrong, the temple needs to be rebuilt as well). So while the first part of the support is a positive statement for Judaism, the second part--where all the Jews die in Armageddon--isn't. --- There is indeed a subsect of Jews who do believe that Jesus was the Moschiach. They keep Jewish holidays and behavioral laws, but they believe that Jesus was the messiah, which is uncommon but doesn't invalidate them from Judaism. They're usually referred to as Messianics, or Messianic Jews, not Judeo-Christians. --- Shalom. Thank you.