Judeo-Christian Values
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References:
(1) 5 Minute Videos on Prager University on “Judeo-Christian Values” by Dennis Prager.
(2) The foundations of the Judeo-Christian values can be summarized in the “Golden Rule” which Jesus taught in Matt. 7:12, “So in everything, do unto others what you would have them do to you, for THIS sums up the Law and the Prophets.”
(3) The apostle Paul gives a summary of 5 such conditions in 1 Cor. 10:5-13 about how the children of Israel dealt with hardships in the wilderness after they had been delivered from Egyptian bondage.
(4) In my lifetime these values have always been the core tenet of American NATIONAL IDENTITY. But as our nation becomes more SECULAR, these values are gradually being ERASED from public awareness.
(5) American jurisprudence is firmly based in Judeo-Christian ethics and celebrates that fact with a variety of artworks throughout Washington, D. C. In the House of Representatives there are 23 marble portraits of great lawgivers, including Moses, who is given the central point of focus. The sculptures over the main entrance of the Supreme Court building are centered on Moses and the Ten Commandments, and there are several other representations of Moses and the Ten Commandments in various places throughout the building. The REMOVAL of these relics is part of the DARK AGENDA of the political left.
(6) The term “Judeo-Christian values” apparently was first used by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in his 1888 book “The Antichrist: Curse on Christianity,” but it wasn’t used as a common set of morals until much later.
(7) The term Judeo-Christian values was not in common usage until WWII when it became a philosophical affirmation of anti-fascism and anti-Nazism. After WWII, politicians of all stripes actively promoted the idea of Judeo-Christian values. It was a common response to the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews. It also differentiated the United States from the atheistic forces of “godless communism,” which at that time was apparent only in Stalin’s Russia.
(8) Dennis Prager lists 10 Judeo-Christian values.
This is episode 144