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...Romney has a bigger problem and a smaller problem than Kennedy," argues Richard N. Ostling, co-author of Mormon America: The Power and the Promise. "Bigger because the distance between the Mormon faith and conventional Judeo-Christian faith is wider. On the other hand, I think Americans are more tolerant than they once were." There are now two Buddhists and a Muslim in the House of Representatives. Is the U.S. open to electing someone from a new, different or marginal religious group? To Romney's disciples, it's an article of faith that the answer...
...democracy and capitalism—it’s unclear how such “European values” will be endangered by an Islamic minority. In a mostly non-religious Europe, the only link between the continent’s values and Christianity is its history, and this Judeo-Christian heritage won’t disappear just because of Muslim immigration. In fact, the progressive Westernization of the world—an admittedly gradual process with fits and starts, and different local variations—suggests the opposite: For better or for worse, Islamic immigrants will adopt European values...
...progressed.”WHY ABRAHAM?Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and the Baha’i faith are all considered Abrahamic traditions, a classification that includes over half of the world’s actively religious population. Abraham, whose life is narrated in Genesis, is a central patriarch in the Judeo-Christian tradition, and is described as a prophet in the Qu’ran. Abraham is also thought to be an ancestor of Baha’u’llah, the nineteenth-century founder of the Baha’i faith.This classification is not uncontroversial, as some adherents of each...
Weigel, author of the 1999 bestselling biography of Pope John Paul II, “Witness to Hope,” is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a self-described “Judeo-Christian” research institute in Washington...
...from places like these, we need to cry out for a movement like the European Enlightenment to sweep away Muslim extremism. Judeo-Christianity had to go through processes like the Enlightenment and the Reformation before it could reach a point where the Catholic Pope quotes Nietzsche, publicly opposes holy wars, and encourages scholarly dissent while seeking to repair antique schisms...