Word: judeo
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...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...
...second sequence, "Crux of Radiance," continues to develop the religious overtone of the book, grappling with the Judeo-Christian tradition and the image of God in poetry. Alternately sorrowful and biting, Schnackenberg derides a modern society that has lost touch with its historic roots. Ancient ruins figure prominently in this sequence, symbols of an artistic and spiritual splendor that once existed and has now been abandoned and forgotten. Poetry is described as "a gold thread...you feel your way along" in the search for memory...
Schnackenberg exhorts us to value that golden thread: "But really you must admit/You're lost/ But really you must not lose the way," she writes of the human condition. This can refer to losing the "way" of the Judeo-Christian tradition, but the poem suggests a further, broader meaning: by losing the connection of poetry to history, we lose a vital way of understanding our past...