re: #122 Spare O’Lake

You bastardize an ecumenically inclusive construct which recognizes the fact that Christianity was an outgrowth of Judaism, and that enlightened Christians and Jews have much more in common than what divides them.

No, I don’t. Are you unaware of the origins of the term? It really did start as a consciously political term. It’s continued as one.

To the extent that it has any decent meaning, it’s about how Puritans hearkened back to the old testament to build on their values, and saw themselves as the inheritors of that old tradition. They didn’t, of course, consult rabbis or any, you know, Jews, in order to construct this “Judeo-Christian” framework of thought. So not really so much ‘Judeo’. More just Christian.