Absurd and insidious.
It insinuates a good relationship between jews and christians in europe, which for the most part did not exist. And it insinuates that Islam is not related to judaism and christianity.
Not exclusively, it’s been used for a very long time to target socialists and indigenous people in the Americas as well, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile’s dictatorships used it as a dog-whistle against their indigenous people, and perhaps even more so against their socialist movements.
During the cold war the “Judeo Christian” thing started to gain traction with reactionaries in the west as a way of distancing themselves from the “Judeo Bolsheviks” in the socialist bloc, how their values where better because they combined Judaism with Christianity, rather than Marxism, which was inherently meaningless because neither had anything to do with Judaism, and western liberalism has arguably little to do with Christian values either.
I had never really considered until recently the absurdity of the term Judeo-Christian.
Absurd and insidious. It insinuates a good relationship between jews and christians in europe, which for the most part did not exist. And it insinuates that Islam is not related to judaism and christianity.
I don’t talk to religious folks in the West enough, is Abrahamic not more commonly used, since that covers Islam as well?
The point of ‘Judeo-Christian’ is to specificially exclude Islam.
Not exclusively, it’s been used for a very long time to target socialists and indigenous people in the Americas as well, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile’s dictatorships used it as a dog-whistle against their indigenous people, and perhaps even more so against their socialist movements.
During the cold war the “Judeo Christian” thing started to gain traction with reactionaries in the west as a way of distancing themselves from the “Judeo Bolsheviks” in the socialist bloc, how their values where better because they combined Judaism with Christianity, rather than Marxism, which was inherently meaningless because neither had anything to do with Judaism, and western liberalism has arguably little to do with Christian values either.
Ben Shapiro uses “judeo Christian”, libs use “western liberal”. Both of them mean the same thing.