Mark Silk on the history of the term 'Judeo-Christian'

Mark Silk on the history of the term 'Judeo-Christian'
Interesting that the antisemites would agree with John of Patmos about Pauline Christianity, but in reverse. Elaine Pagels brings this out in her analysis of Revelation, which takes the air out of the belief that Jesus is coming back any day now.

It is a a shame that the new use of the term did not happen before the State Department refused entry to Jewish refugees before and after the war, or when Joe McCarthy brought many before his committee as Communist sympathizers. It may be that the friendly us of the term had the same intention in support of Zionism, which held out Israel as an option against mass migration of survivors to America.  From Zion to Falwell to Bannon, it has been used as a political tool rather than a desire for cultural unity.

The early pilgrims use of Old Testament language was as a replacement of the Jews, not solidarity. As for the Founders, they were mainly Deists and Masons, not religious patriots. Indeed, use of religious language by Islamic patriots in the Middle East scares conservatives.

Deep antisemitism is still a core of the right wing wing ideology, morphing the use of the self-styled use of New York Jewish Liberal Elite to the derisive use of Liberal, then Cultural and now Bicoastal as code for the same antisemitism.