Defending The West's Christian Culture.
Last month after much hoo-ha the High Court finally gave the green light for Jim Molan to replace the "British" Fiona Nash in the Senate. Senator Molan was well known for his military service and his role in the success of Operation Sovereign Borders. So it was with great interest that I watched his maiden speech
http://australianpolitics.com/2018/02/14/sen-jim-molan-maiden-speech.html
As expected the Senator touched on many conservative issues: strong national defence, financial deficit, the rising threat of China and even a mention of the cultural war within Australia. So far so good. But then it came, a reference to Australia's "Judaeo-Christian" culture. Now this made my eyes roll, I have always considered Australia's culture, and Western culture in general, to be Christian in nature. Sure there is shared history between Judaism and Christianity but lets be honest, the vast majority of that history is antagonistic in nature. I know of no other religion where a deep hatred of Jesus Christ and Christians is enshrined in their religious texts. To be fair to Senator Molan his comment didn't appear to come from any deep understanding of the issue, rather he was repeating something he had heard ad nauseam.
So what to make of this myth of a Judaeo-Christian tradition.
It appears the term Judaeo-Christian is reletively new phenomenon having first appearing in the mid 19th century and gaining its current implication – that of a shared value system and morals – in the 1940s, a result of America's reaction to Nazism. President Eisenhower made the concept a household term when he connected it with the Founding Fathers in a 1952 speech:
“all men are endowed by their Creator.” In other words, our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don’t care what it is. With us of course it is the Judeo-Christian concept, but it must be a religion with all men created equal.”
http://www.stateofformation.org/2014/04/the-myth-of-a-judeo-christian-tradition/
By contrast scholars of the Judaic faith aren't nearly as enthusiastic about the aligning of the two religions.
Joshua Jehouda, a prominent French Jewish leader, observed in the late 1950s: "The current expression 'Judaeo-Christian' is an error which has altered the course of universal history by the confusion it has sown in men's minds, if by it one is meant to understand the Jewish origin of Christianity . . . If the term 'Judaeo-Christian' does point to a common origin, there is no doubt that it is a most dangerous idea. It is based on a 'contradictio in abjecto' which has set the path of history on the wrong track. It links in one breath two ideas which are completely irreconcileable, it seeks to demonstrate that there is no difference between day and night or hot and cold or black and white, and thus introduces a fatal element of confusion to a basis on which some, nevertheless, are endeavouring to construct a civilisation."
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The comments of Jewish author Mr. S. Levin may well explain the Christian's need for the Judeo-Christian myth. Writing in the Israeli journal Biblical Polemics, Levin concludes: "'After all, we worship the same God', the Christian always says to the Jew and the Jew never to the Christian. The Jew knows that he does not worship the Christ-God but the Christian orphan needs to worship the God of Israel and so, his standard gambit rolls easily and thoughtlessly from his lips. It is a strictly unilateral affirmation, limited to making a claim on the God of Israel but never invoked with reference to other gods. A Christian never confronts a Moslem or a Hindu with 'After all, we worship the same God'."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4803.htm
Most Christian churches seem to have submitted to the relentless pressure from organised PC groups and have either embraced or at the very least leave unquestioned the myth of the Judaeo-Christian Tradition. The survivial of traditional Christianity may well lie in the hands of smaller independent church groups.
Marching to Zion: Full Movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rues1gVr338
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