Word: judeo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always grown up in Judeo-Christian society," says Deepti Choubey '98, who is Hindu. "It's always been a part of the establishment in which I live."CrimsonRebecca L. BennettMemorial Church was built in 1932. Today, it is supposed to serve students of all denominations...
...approaches the estimable age of 2000, the Judeo-Christian ethic seems to be going all soft and senile. A noisily Christian portion of the Virginia electorate is prepared to send a former felon to the Senate on the grounds that he never cheated on his wife. In Haiti, born-again ex-President Jimmy Carter invited torture master Raoul Cedras to teach Sunday school, apparently because his wife is slender and his shirts are well pressed. Everywhere, private virtue -- or the successful simulation of it -- seems to count more than public morality, and material wealth more than anything else...
That is stern stuff, and an abiding challenge to the wayward flesh. But it's the easy part. The hard part is the social side of the Judeo-Christian ethic, meaning not how you treat the spouse and kids but how you conduct yourself in the world beyond the bedroom and the den. We don't hear about it so much since the word Christian began its oxymoronic partnership with the smug word right, but Scripture demands unstinting charity, if not all out dedication to the poor...
...echo some of our self-righteously Christian spokesmen, how far we have strayed from the narrow path prescribed by the prophets! A sizable portion of the electorate, probably no less Judeo-Christian than anyone else, stands ready to let the richer candidate buy its votes, on the theory that the rich cannot be bought themselves. In the case of Michael Huffington in California or Ross Perot in '92, piles of earthly treasure are proffered, with a straight face, as proof of one's ability to lead. But who can fault our lucre-crazed political culture when even the televangelists promise...
...course Scripture is open to interpretation; ethics do change with the times. Most Judeo-Christians don't prohibit shellfish anymore or appease the deity with slaughtered rams. But there's something suspect about a brand of Judeo-Christianity that can get all het up about the spilling of seed while gliding right past the Sermon on the Mount. We seem to have chosen the easy path, the one that comforts the already comfortable and harangues the already hard pressed. We're the post-Judeo-Christian generation, and the Christian Right is turning out to be nothing more than Christian Lite...