Judeo-Christian

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{{cquote|"Judeo-Christian” isn’t a thing. It a) positions Jews & Christians against Muslims, is [[Islamophobic]] b) elides Christian oppression & [[Pogrom|murder of Jews over more than 1000 years]] & c) ignores Jewish civilization worldwide & facts of key Jewish developments in Middle East & N Africa.|||Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg<ref>[https://twitter.com/TheRaDR/status/1089589999920660484?wpisrc=nl_todayworld&wpmm=1 Judeo-Christian” isn’t a thing. It a) positions Jews & Christians against Muslims, is Islamophobic b) elides Christian oppression & murder of Jews over more than 1000 years & c) ignores Jewish civilization worldwide & facts of key Jewish developments in Middle East & N Africa.] by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (8:24 PM - 27 Jan 2019) ''Twitter''.</ref>}}
The term '''Judeo-Christian''' can refer to the aspects of a [[culture]] (including an assumed direct connection and shared [[history]]) that reflect that culture's roots within the [[Christian]] and [[Jewish]] world.  In a [[historical]] or [[academic]] context, it would refer to anything that rises from ancient Christianity or from [[Judaism]]; however, in the real world, the "Judeo" generally only refers to Judaism in so far as Christianity adopted the [[Old Testament]] "from" Judaism. "Judeo" does not refer to actual practices, [[belief]]s, or [[worldview]]s of contemporary Jewish people, or of contemporary Judaism as a religion. 

Originally, the term was used simply to refer to Jewish converts to Christianity. It didn't come into use in its modern sense until some time during the interwar period ([[World War I|WWI]]-[[World War II|WWII]]) in the [[United States|US]].{{cn}} Growing [[Antisemitism|anti-Semitic]] sentiment led [[theology| theologically]] [[liberal]] Christians and Jews to promote the notion of a common "Judeo-Christian" heritage as a reaction. It wasn't until the post-war era that [[conservative]] and [[fundamentalist]] Christians would lay claim to Judeo-Christian values (but [[Irony| remain uninterested]] in the inclusion of liberal Christians, liberal Jews, and non-[[Republican]] [[Palestine|Palestinian]] Christians).

Since [[9/11]] (2001), conservative rhetoric about the "Judeo-Christian roots" of the United States has frequently carried an unspoken subtext of expressly ''excluding'' [[Muslims]].  [[Dennis Prager]], who was born into an Orthodox Jewish family, is an example, making sure that good old Christian values have the prefix "Judeo-" in them, while never mentioning that [[Islam |other Abrahamic faith]] with which they also share principles.<ref>
See his videos about morality on [https://www.youtube.com/user/PragerUniversity/videos PragerU] (YouTube channel).
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==See also==
*[[Fun:God's Love|God's Love]]
*[[Divine retribution]]
*[[Abrahamic religion]]

==External links==
*[http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/3984/what_do_we_mean_by_%E2%80%98judeo-christian%E2%80%99_ What Do We Mean By 'Judeo-Christian'?] Shalom Goldman, ''Religion Dispatches''

==References==
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[[Category:Abrahamic religions]]
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[[Category:Judaism]]

Categories: Abrahamic religions, Christianity, Islamophobia, Judaism