Happy birthday, Sara!
'Trash'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
We used to have a mullberry tree and the birds would get so drunk that Mom had to keep the cat inside for a week or two or our back yard would have been an abattoir.
Ugh. Nice to know they think I should be second class citizen. Oh well, this is why I never talk about religion with family.
And, as usual, just about every one of his examples of America's "Judeo-Christian" heritage is actually just Christian.
Look, we're not blaming you for the death of our Lord. Just be happy with that.
Hippo birdies, sara.
I particularly liked the bit where he mentioned a Supreme Court case that said that the US was a Christian nation with tone and phrasing that clearly said, "See, not just Judeo-Christian, but just Christian! Even better!"
And, as usual, just about every one of his examples of America's "Judeo-Christian" heritage is actually just Christian.
Of course. "Judeo-Christian" actually means one or more of:
1) We're just the same, so STFU about how we should recognize your stupid hard-to-spell holidays.
2) We're just the same, so we all hate the muslims, right?
3) You people know perfectly well that Jesus really is the messiah, you're just being stubborn about admitting it.
(why yes, I hate the term, are my issues showing?)
Historically, "Judeo-Christian" means "Okay we're still mad about the whole killing Jesus thing, but at least you're not Communists. You're *not* Communists, right?"
(I have the same issues with that term, amych.)
Except you missed one meaning.
4. Jesus was Jewish, so Christians really are Jewish too! Anything that's changed about the Jewish religion since 2000 years ago? Oh, that's not real Judaism.
Most uses of "Judeo-Christian" from the fifties that I've seen seem to be the exact same people who would have said "America is a Christian nation" ten years earlier, but realized that didn't sound so good in a post-Holocaust world, so they added the "Judeo" to that sentence without actually changing what they meant.