Word: judeo
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...even within the community of faith there is a vast gray area. Though suffering and death underlie Judeo-Christian theology, basic compassion seems to dictate that a patient in terrible pain should be allowed to die. This is a proposition that the Roman Catholic Church appears to endorse. While both suicide and mercy killing are still strictly forbidden, the Vatican in 1980 declared that refusing treatment "is not equivalent to suicide; on the contrary, it should be considered as an acceptance of the human condition . . . or a desire not to impose excessive expenses on the family or community...
...Having thus dismissed the traditional concept of Christian marriage, Williams told a questioner in rather crude terms that Mother Teresa of Calcutta would be better off if she had had sex. All that was too much even for Bishop Spong, who also wants to overturn Judeo-Christian sexual limitations but encourages "committed" relationships, gay or straight, with lifelong monogamy as the ideal...
...conflict cut to the heart of Muslim and Judeo-Christian values, with centuries of cultural misunderstanding and mistrust finding a flash point in Rushdie's novel. After Khomeini's call to murder, many Muslim leaders worldwide disagreed with the ferocity of his action, but none had a friendly word for Rushdie, his literary intentions or his right to free speech. To be sure, few of his prosecutors had read the book, as the author pointed out repeatedly; most seemed to feel they had learned enough from printed excerpts or merely word of mouth to convict the author of blasphemy compounded...
...Judeo-Christian tradition introduced a radically different concept. The earth was the creation of a monotheistic God, who, after shaping it, ordered its inhabitants, in the words of Genesis: "Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth." The idea of dominion could be interpreted as an invitation to use nature as a convenience. Thus the spread of Christianity, which is generally considered to have paved the way for the development...
...were not so influential. It will be distributed to thousands of churches in the coming months and sent to pastors whose flocks number in the millions. And it will motivate many to vote against candidates who endorse "humanistic anti-God values" (i.e., the Democrats) and for "candidates who support Judeo-Christian values" (i.e., the Republicans...