Debate on Judeo-Christian Roots in America

And you know what's interesting,

I see this a lot in the political context when it comes specifically to our foundation.

Like you'll see people say,

oh, don't say we have Judeo-Christian roots.

Don't say it was a Judeo-Christian constitution or founding documents.

None of the founding fathers were Jewish.

Well, you know, it's interesting, a lot of the people

I see saying that are what you call trad-cath.

A lot of the people I see pushing back against this Judeo-Christian terminology, moniker,

are Catholic themselves.

So if we are going to say we can't call it Judeo-Christian

because the founders weren't Jewish, okay, well, we're also not going to call it Catholic Christian because the founders weren't Catholic.

Like they were Protestant, that they were Protestant.

So if we want to talk about exactly the belief system and the

worldview of the founders and of the people who wrote our founding documents and the founding charters for the colonies,

they were specifically Protestant Christians, okay?

And so if we're going to get into this debate of,

oh, who was actually represented and what was the belief system represented at the founding?

We can only use that terminology.

Okay, let's start using Protestant Christians.

You want to go with Calvinist?

We could do that.

If you want to get really specific about what most of the founders actually believed

about the sovereignty of God and the plan of salvation.

When people are saying Judeo-Christian, they're not saying that some of the founders were Jewish.

They were saying we have these shared principles of people being made by a God.

Whose power and knowledge transcends ours a god who gave us inalienable rights because we were made in his image Because

unlike any plant and animal any other part of creation.

We are special We have an eternal soul and therefore we have been given rights that are unalienable.

The government cannot take them away arbitrarily

These are foundational principles that we see in Genesis 1 through 11 that yes

Both the Jewish faith and the Christian faith share that is not people trying to say that Christianity and Judaism are the same

It's not people trying to rewrite history about what the founders actually believed

It's saying the Old Testament like we both gain inspiration from that

And we don't compromise on the fact that Jesus is the only way the only Messiah for everyone

I just think you're on dangerous ground when you start Demonizing and negating a key part of Jesus's identity the guy that you say you worship

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