Word: judeo
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...York Post columnist complained shrilly that Christians, in death, get short shrift. "To so many media figures, Christians ? specifically evangelicals, orthodox Catholics and others who believe in traditional Judeo-Christian moral teaching ?- are not victims, but victimizers," wrote the columnist, Rod Dreher. "If Larry Gene Ashbrook, guns blazing, had walked into a synagogue, gay bar, an abortion clinic or even a black church service, there is no doubt what the government, cultural and media elite?s reaction would be." Dreher is right about one thing: Ashbrook?s massacre is a hate crime, and might even have been stamped as such...
...answer a lot of relevant questions for man," says Larry. "In the film we refer to the story of Nebuchadnezzar; he has a dream he can't remember but keeps searching for an answer. Then there's the whole idea of a messiah. It's not just a Judeo-Christian myth; it also plays into the search for the reincarnation of the Buddha...
...years, we've lived under a Judeo-Christian ethic," Doherty said. "Everything we've believed in shouldn't change...
...talk of role models and ethics that has dominated the airwaves recently, male leadership isn't just rooted in morality; it has a murky, mythic basis too. Ask Machiavelli: Power is aura. Power is potency. The guys with the power tools illustrated a truth: even in nominal Judeo-Christians there's a lurking Nietzschean whose first commandment is, Thou Shalt Not Screw Up. His second is, If You Do, Don't Whine About...
...Waste Land was a deeply unoptimistic, un-Christian and therefore un-American poem, prefaced by the suicidal words of the Cumaean Sibyl, "I want to die." It is, we could say, the first Euro-poem. In its desolation at the breakup of the Judeo-Christian past, the poem turns for salvation to the Buddha and his three ethical commandments: Give, Sympathize, Control. But on the way to its ritually religious close ("Shantih, shantih, shantih"), it films a succession of loveless or violent or failed sexual unions--among the educated ("My nerves are bad tonight") and the uneducated ("He, the young...