{"id":1293,"date":"2009-01-15T23:02:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T07:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2009-01-15T23:05:08","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T07:05:08","slug":"on-judeo-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/on-judeo-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"On Judeo-Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently triggered a round of discussion on several weblogs around the interwebs relating to the term &#8220;Judeo-Christianity,&#8221; especially when it comes to definiting the civilization of the West (as in, &#8220;our Judeo-Christian culture&#8221;). \u00a0 I started the discussion <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gnxp\/2009\/01\/justify_judeo-christianity.php\">here<\/a>, to which Ross Douthat <a href=\"http:\/\/rossdouthat.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2009\/01\/christian_muslim_jew.php\">responded with his disagreement<\/a>\u00a0(also, my response to Ross, of a sort, <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gnxp\/2009\/01\/in_defense_of_judeo-christiani.php\">here<\/a>).\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theamericanscene.com\/2009\/01\/15\/tell-me-mr-gandhi-what-do-you-think-of-western-civilization\">Noah Millman<\/a> and Sam Goldman lean toward <a href=\"http:\/\/culture11.com\/blogs\/postmodernconservative\/2009\/01\/15\/jews-christians-and-the-american-political-tradition\/\">my side<\/a>, though with reservations. \u00a0James Poulos <a href=\"http:\/\/culture11.com\/blogs\/theconfabulum\/2009\/01\/14\/judeo-christian-or-no\/\">stayed neutral<\/a>. \u00a0At <em>Taki&#8217;s Mag<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.takimag.com\/sniperstower\/article\/the_judeo-christian_west\/\">I tried to show<\/a> that the debate might have the faintest of relation with current events, while Richard Spencer responds with, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takimag.com\/sniperstower\/article\/is_christianity_western\/\">Is Christianity Western?<\/a>, where he considers some of the arguments in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0195104668\/geneexpressio-20\">The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity<\/a>. \u00a0A quick answer to Richard&#8217;s query would be that though I would not say Christianity is necessarily Western, I do believe that the West as we understand it is necessarily Christian or post-Christian. \u00a0Even if we are not religious, I would say that Christianity is the religion we are not if we are Western. \u00a0Similarly, if one is Japanese, and not religious, Buddhism is the religion one is not, if you get my drift&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently triggered a round of discussion on several weblogs around the interwebs relating to the term &#8220;Judeo-Christianity,&#8221; especially when it comes to definiting the civilization of the West (as in, &#8220;our Judeo-Christian culture&#8221;). \u00a0 I started the discussion here, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/on-judeo-christian\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7,90,1],"tags":[180,143,1134,178,179],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1297,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/1297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}