Word: judeo
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Leibovitz was a man of irony and rhetorical excess. A devoted Orthodox Jew, he relentlessly campaigned for the separation of synagogue and state. A witness to the unspeakable horrors of Nazi Germany, Leibovitz infuriated the Israeli public by referring to Israeli soldiers as "Judeo-Nazis...
...hardly have imagined the full orchestral symphony of faiths that resounds in the U.S. two centuries later. The world has never seen a nation as religiously diverse as the U.S., which becomes ever more so each year under the impact of new immigrants. In addition to the various mainstream Judeo-Christian faiths that populated the original colonies, America now encompasses 700 to 800 "nonconventional" denominations, according to J. Gordon Melton, who monitors the proliferation for his Encyclopedia of American Religions. Half of them are imported variants of standard world religions, mostly Asian; the other half a creative and chaotic...
...leaflets on car windshields denouncing the "dumbing down" of classes and the substitution of "psychotherapy" for the three Rs. Debi Schwier, an anti-OBE organizer in Gwinnett County, denounces such reforms as "one of the most blatant shifts in the history of the U.S. from what they call the Judeo-Christian ethic to an atheistic, humanistic ethic." She fears that the schools may tamper with her daughter's parent-instilled understanding of God. "Their goal seems to be to reform society," she says, "not just the schools...
...worshippers of both the PC-brand of collective democratic morality and the traditional, conservative Judeo-Christian variety, Beavis and Butt-head are tantamount to the Antichrist. Of course, that's pretty cool...
...look at natural disasters of recent years in America and be reminded that we are in total subservience to a sovereign God who might be a bit unhappy with our treatment of the unborn and the trashing of the Judeo- Christian ethic." -- The Rev. Jerry Falwell...