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...Times then attempted to draw a distinction between wrongheaded cults and acceptable mainstream faiths: "The crucial safety break in most theologies is that the believer himself cannot choose the moment of ascension. Only the central deity can do that." America may retain a Judeo-Christian tradition, but the claim that only religions who bestow ultimate power on a "central deity" are legitimate reveals no respect for faiths that have no such deity, or that empower people to seize control of their existence on earth...
...historical advocates of reason--a howler which would bring swift retribution in any first-year philosophy class. None of these critics seems to feel willing or able to adduce reasons to reject Ayn Rand's ideas in favor of their own. Objectivism, with its passionate rejection of age-old Judeo-Christian ideas in favor of reason, selfishness and unfettered capitalism, no doubt inspires antagonism in many people; but it deserves competent criticism, not just hysterical bile...
...Kenobi puts it. "It's a distillation of a lot of mythological religious teachings," Lucas says. "Not that I'm promoting a particular idea or anything. I believe in God, and I guess that's reflected in the movie, but that's about as far as it goes." A Judeo-Christian God? "I wouldn't go that far. My spiritual perspective, I think, is broader than the Judeo-Christian. But I hate to get into putting a label on it, because I think what I feel hasn't been labeled yet, at least not to my knowledge...
...teach world history, and my students are frequently surprised to learn that the Jewish, Christian and Muslim representations of God show the same deity, culturally and historically. The term Judeo-Christian is often used when a more appropriate phrase would be Judeo-Christian-Muslim. Your inclusion of Muslim perspectives in your article on Genesis certainly supports the understanding of the shared experiences of these three religions. THOM LABARBERA Newark, Delaware...
Then there is the behavior of the patriarchs. Writes one analyst, with some understatement: "There is often a disparity between these stories and the subsequent Judeo-Christian ethic that has been derived from them throughout the centuries." Genesis chapter 12, as Visotzky was disagreeably reminded, seems to find Abraham allowing his wife to be taken into Pharaoh's harem both to ensure the couple safe passage through Egypt and "so that all may go well with me." Sarah, barren, offers her slave, Hagar, to Abraham as a kind of surrogate mother but when Hagar gets pregnant, Sarah becomes jealous...