Judeo-Christian?

[Ann Althouse]

As long as we're obsessing about adjectives, should that be "Judeo- 
Christian-Islamic"?

Ann

On Jul 21, 2005, at 11:05 AM, Marty Lederman wrote:

> And anyway, the proper formulation is now "Judeo-Christian-Islam,"  
> the better to distinguish us from the other 2.3% of "believers."   
> See Scalia, J., dissenting in McCreary County.
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> Gene Garman wrote:
> A wording which I find less acceptable is "Judeo-Christian." There  
> is no such thing as a Judeo-Christian. Jews are not Christians, and  
> Christians are not Jews.
> I think you are misconstruing the term.  The term "Judeo- 
> Christian", at least as I have seen it used, generally refers to a  
> worldview drawn from that common ground which does exist between  
> Judaism and Christianity.  Nobody who uses the term Judeo-Christian  
> does so assuming that there is such a thing as a Judeo-Christian or  
> that Jews and Christians are interchangable.
>
> Brad Pardee
>
>
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