Judeo Christian Culture?

Today, we are flirting with Judeo-Christian-Muslim Culture; the US is being transformed into what is called an inter-faith, generic, non-secular culture. Judeo-Christian at the time of Ronald Reagan used to mean that Jews and Christians shared their belief in the Old Testament Scriptures, with the Christians believing in the New Testament Scriptures as well. There was no need to define modern Judaism as a rejection of Christianity. It was an earlier version of "don't ask, don't tell" philosophy to unite the American Christians and the American Jews into one culture, the way this philosophy today unites the heterosexuals and the homosexuals into one society.

However, with the advent of this new century, the paradigm is shifting. We have a very popular candidate, Senator Barack Obama, who was raised by essentially atheist parents; however, Barack Obama, the elder, was a Muslim. The Senator's father was a Kenyan Muslim who met the Senator's mother, a girl of Irish Catholic descent, in a university in Hawaii. Ironically, they were both studying Russian. For most students this was an indication of leftist leaning; at least it was an indication of atheist feelings. According to a CNN documentary on the Senator's upbringing, the parents of the couple were opposed to their getting married. However, they did get married and the Senator was born while his parents lived in Hawaii. Soon the Senator's father left for studies at Harvard and subsequently the parents were divorced, with the Senator's mother marrying an Indonesian Muslim and moving with her son to Indonesia, where the future Senator went to both a Catholic and a Muslim school for a while.

It wasn't until after Barack Obama graduated from Harvard University that he was converted to Christianity by Pastor Jeremiah Wright in a Black Chicago church. Now that Senator Obama is running for President, he resents being identified with his legal name, Barack Hussein Obama. Hussein sounds like a Muslim name, which it is; however, Barack is also a Muslim name, while Obama is an African name. Senator Obama professes that he is a Christian, and it is only fair that he be accepted as a Christian on the basis of that declaration of a Christian Confession.

With Senator Barack Obama the US has entered into a new era of history when an Islamic upbringing is not a detriment to candidacy for the highest office in the US government. This is in stark contrast to the times of Senator John Kennedy, the first Catholic President in the history of the United States of America. There was a big controversy at the time of his nomination. Senator John Kennedy had to profess that his Catholicism would not mean that as President of the United States he would be under the influence of the Pope.

This is why today we have to admit that there is a paradigm shift in American Society; we have now a Christian-Jewish-Muslim Culture. Moreover, the two US Parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, have adopted the policy of not mentioning the name of Jesus in their campaigns. The name of Jesus was not mentioned during the two Conventions and no one is talking about their faith in Jesus during the campaigns, even though all four candidates for President and Vice-President are Christians.

Now that Governor Sarah Palin is under attack by the media for having attended a Pentecostal Church when she was young, the American voters are being told that it is detrimental for a candidate to be too closely associated with any particular church. The sentiment of the voters is toward a more generic view of religion. The candidates should not be overly Christian, otherwise the media will bring up the question of religious influence in their styles of governing and over their handling of social issues, for example, if a candidate is pro-life or pro-choice.

The issues that a President has to deal with are not to be affected by any religion in this new age. Thus morality is no longer an issue, only secular values based on socio-economic principles are to be paramount. With the doctrine of "separation of church and state" in place, there is no need to discuss religion in the application of law. Thus a Judeo-Christian-Muslim Culture means a culture without religious values. This means also that people can no longer discuss their religious preferences publicly. Religion should be a private affair. The US is now, therefore, ready to fight for the privacy of its citizens' religious choice but not for the freedom to practice the religion of their choice.

From a Judeo-Christian Culture to a Judeo-Christian-Muslim Culture, we have gone from an agreement on faith to an agreement on non-faith, because Christianity and Judaism agree on the Old Testament, but Islam does not share with these two monotheistic religions any part of the Scriptures. The Islamic Quran is completely different; therefore, there is no possibility of agreement on a moral code for American Society. We must now live and die as a secular society. Thus the atheists have won.