We are desensitized to Christianity’s influence on Western thought

Re:We are desensitized to Christianity’s influence on Wester... by Udik on Saturday May 01, 2021 @11:43AM (#27007191)

I was reading this essay nodding, until the revelation: the author isn't Christian at all. He's raised in Judaism. My knowledge of religion (despite being born and raised in a Catholic country) is entirely intuitive, but Judaism and Christianity seem pretty different religions, and the Old and New Testament contain different teachings and a different worldview. At the very least it could be lexical sloppiness (Christianity as a catch-all term for the three Abrahamic religions, since he mentions mosques too at some point). Curious.

I guess this confusion between Christianity and Judaism is pretty typical of American culture. For example, this is an interesting article from the Jerusalem Post about the progressive Judaization of US's Pentecostals:

https://m.jpost.com/magazine/the-new-judaizers-540415

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Re:We are desensitized to Christianity’s influence on Wester... by _r0fz on Saturday May 01, 2021 @08:51PM (#27011360)

Yeah there's a thing for a while now in the US where we like to talk about "judeo-christian" values or roots or whatever. I've never really understood it except as a way to exclude islam which I really believe is all it is.

Parts of the white evangelicals going hard into it is weird but not completely out of nowhere I guess.

BUT! Anyway the "judeo-christian" thing is just a rhetorical move. I think overall Americans are very ignorant of judaism and think it's a lot more similar to christianity than it is but no one thinks they're the same religion. Uninformed but not likely to mix the two up like this.

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