No, Judeo-Christian is not a code word for anti-semitism any more than saying ” Jews in Israel need to stop slaughtering their neighbors” or saying that Israeli policy has HUGE influence on US policies that lead to the ongoing genocide called Iraq, et al.

If it is a coded word at all, it seems to me to be a very modern word that describes the above-mentioned collusion of powers. It is not anti semitic to state the facts. as in ” Large amounts of human labor, and United States military power has been used to create and maintain the state of Israel.”

It also seems to be a word that implies accountability from Jews and Goyim alike for these little half decades long genocides in the middle east.

It is a word that implicates the Jerry Falwells, and the Menachim Begins alike.

So, whereas it seems tantalizing to imagine that America was actually based on democratic ideals, democracy, and the so-called Germanic influence. it is hyperbole that doesn’t ‘follow the money’, and avoids simple inconvenient facts like the fact that the Treasurer of the Confederate States of America, Judah P. Benjamin was Jewish, or this one about finacing the Revolutionary war:

“The small Jewish community in colonial America gave more than their share toward the United States’ revolutionary cause. One such patriot was indeed Hyam Salomon, who gave $300,000, an immense fortune for those days.”

discussion can be found here (which coincides with a news story from today about the mystery symbols on US currency):
http://factsofisrael.com/blog/archives/000467.html

the link to ask the Rabbi is broken so here is that link:
http://ohr.edu/ask/ask266.htm

Oh well. 1 month down, 11 to go.

Clearly the answer for this chapel is just to put up all the symbols all the time.

“Judeo-Christian? Sounds nasty, is it Catching?!”

Honestly, no one involved in this sort of thing wishes to undermine the fabric of the nation, nor are we doing so. It’s about some of our most cherished values – including the bit about how this isn’t a Christian Nation (that would be a theocracy, and something very far removed both from the ideals of our founders, and those most Americans), but a nation of Christians (who have, and continue to, shape our shared history in innumerable ways) – and of Baha’is,and of Buddhists, and of Hindus, and of Jews, and of Muslims, and of (various kinds of) Pagans, and of Sikhs, and of all variety of traditional belief, and of Zoroastrians, and yes, and of agnostics, atheists, and folks who simply live their lives (and anyone I left out!). One where – in law and ideal, and sometimes even striven for in practice – we’re all equal, where none of us are second-class citizens, subjects of some Christian-style dhimma, outsiders permitted in on forbearance. That’s not what our country is about! It is our home, our America.

Again, nobody wishes to undermine the fabric of our nation. But those who wish – with the best of intentions, fed with revisionist history a la Barton – to bring it back to what they imagine to be its proper Judeo*-Christian roots – without realizing risk ripping this slowly, even painfully pieced together and beautiful tapestry to shreds.

And no, this isn’t some scheme foisted upon an unsuspecting public by nefarious ACLU types. It’s part of our shared heritage, our birthright, tracing to people like (Quaker) William Penn, (Baptist) Roger Williams, (Deist) Thomas Jefferson, (?) George Washington, (Episcopalian) James Madison, and so on. This is one of the true sources of our nation’s strength: a fierce dedication to freedom of conscience and religious liberty.

It may well be that some First Amendment issues have, perhaps, more passion than wisdom. But Cathy, they aren’t attempts to push you out, or make you unwelcome – it’s about striving to make sure instead that all are equally welcome.

* incidentally, Jews couldn’t hold any elected position in Maryland until 1826, thanks to a provision in the State Constitution which required a Christian religious test for public office. This was finally changed thanks in large part to the Scottish Presbyterian legislator Thomas Kennedy, who spent years fighting for what was known as the “Jew Bill”, and seems to have lost an election over it.
A part of one speech he gave reads “This bill ought to pass even if it was only to do justice to the long oppressed Hebrew; but it is not for their benefit alone; it is establishing a general principle … sanctioned by reason, by religion and by common sense … approved by the patriots of the revolution, sanctioned by wisdom and virtue and tested by experience … Let us pass this bill … even on a dying pillow it will comfort us to think that we have done at least one good act in our lives … establishing religious freedom in Maryland …”

See also George Washington’s famous letter to the Jews of Newport, Rhode Island, which reads in part
“The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection, should demean themselves as good citizens. . . . . May the Children of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell in this land, continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other Inhabitants; while every one shall sit under his own vine and fig tree, and there shall be none to make him afraid.”

Now, that’s America.

So that’s the belief system in which Jesus Christ is simultaneously the Son of God and a Satanically-inspired false prophet who got what he deserved?

Our nation was based on Judeo-Christian beliefs and this is the true source of America’s strength

Interesting thought. But seriously…Judeo-Christian? Then why force Jews to worship (or meditate) before a symbol of their oppression and murder?

“Judeo-Christian beliefs”? Christianity represents the final stage in the Hellenisation of Judaism. Come on – if Moses came down from Mount Sinai and saw Christianity, he’d probably react much the same as he did in the Golden Calf story. Judaism has much more in common with Islam than Christianity.

The US government is based on the Greek idea of democracy, and the Roman Republic. Add to that a legal system of common law which derives from pagan Germanic tribes… Judeo-Christian? Nah, Greco-German seems more appropriate to me.

Cathy: Our nation was based on Judeo-Christian beliefs…

According to my dictionary, the term “Judeo-Christian” wasn’t even coined until 1899. The founders may have been remarkably prescient, but I doubt they were working on the basis of a concept left undescribed until a century after the Constitution was written.