What Are Judeo-Christian Values?
Judaism and Christianity are the only two religions that share a sacred text and a fundamental set of values. These values created and sustained Western Civilization. But now many want to discard them. If we do, at what cost?
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Have you ever heard the term, “Judeo-Christian values?”
I suspect you have.
Can you name any of those values?
I suspect you can’t.
But you should because Judeo-Christian values are the moral foundation of Western civilization.
As the great British prime minister Margaret Thatcher put it:
“The truths of the Judeo-Christian tradition are infinitely precious, not only…because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse which alone can lead to that peace…for which we all long.”
Mrs. Thatcher was a believing Christian. I am a believing Jew. While we have different theologies, we have the same core values. And as far as society is concerned, moral values are far more important than theologies.
That is why traditionally religious Protestants, Catholics, Mormons, and Jews are aligned on almost every important moral issue.
Here, then, are ten of those values.
Number 1: There is one God. That God is the God introduced to the world by the Hebrew Bible, or as Christians came to refer to it, the Old Testament.
Number 2: The Hebrew Bible introduced the most revolutionary moral idea in history: that there are objective moral truths just as there are objective mathematical and scientific truths. Without God, there is no moral truth; only moral opinions.
Number 3: Because there are moral truths, good and evil are the same for all people.
Number 4: God—not man, not government, not popular opinion, not a democratic vote—is the source of our rights. The American Declaration of Independence declares that all men “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.”
Number 5: The human being is “created in the image of God.” Therefore, Every human life is precious and therefore race is of no significance because God has no race.
Number 6: The world is based on divine order, and order is made by distinctions. Among these divine distinctions are God and man, God and nature, man and woman, human and animal, good and evil.
Number 7: Man is not basically good. Christians speak of “original sin” in referring to man’s nature; Jews cite what God said in Genesis: “The will of man’s heart is evil from his youth.” Both beliefs are diametrically opposed to the naive modern belief that man is basically good. And they lead to the same conclusion: we need God-based rules to keep us from our natural inclinations.
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Probably one of the most ignorant uninformed videos I’ve ever watched
This coming from a Jew is hilarious. Why isn’t Islam apart of this?
Was Margaret Thatcher really such a good example of a person with Christian morals? She was friends with Ronald Reagan who promoted wars in Latin America and even asked Congress to finance that and he said that Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt was a good guy, even though he should have noticed how many people fled the country during his regime. Israel chose the side of America as well by the way. Thatcher also defended the brutal dictator Augosto Pinochet who had human beings thrown out of helicopters, only because he sided with Britain in the Falkland War.
Western civilization is not based on Judeo-Christian morals, at least not anymore it is. We invented the secular state because of the abuse by theocratic countries. The only reason women have voting rights today is because of their own struggle to finally attain it. No church, no clergy and no religion has helped them in this fight.
no such thing as judeo christian.
Says the guy who doesn't think watching internet child p–n is a sin. We are not the same.
Allah doesn't exist and Muhammed rxped aisha.
islam is enemy of judeo Christian values.
Quoting thatcher in a positive manner, seriously? So you believe that making lives for working class people as miserable as possible whilst making lives of those with large capital easier?
What does the jewish Talmud say about Jesus Christ? Anyone who rejects Christ will never enter the kingdom of God.
is there areal Christian help me pliz
That leap on race being of no significance is a massive leap from the understanding that we are all created in the image of god.
Evil and good coexist in us. Free will is what allows us to choose one from the other. But if you need religion to compulse you to make the good choice, I think you aren’t as good as you think you are. I prefer making my choices by conviction and not by fear. After all, as it’s mentioned in this video, there are objective moral truths and moral values are far more important than theologies
there no such thing as judeo christian values there in opposition of each other. it’s an oxymoron
Lmao..the Christians use this term to hide the bloodshed of jews carried out by Christians in the past..and the jews use it to to gain favour and assurance that the bloodshed may never happen again..both are morbid religions
Judeo-Christian values don't exist, at least if you are actually Christian.
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me. Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word. You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me. Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”
The real Jewish bible is not the Torah, it is the Talmud. In the Talmud they follow the word of Rabbis that argue against God and claim that Jesus is burning in Hell. It also states that it is okay for Jews to steal from, murder, rape, and deceive the non-Jews known as Goyim. To Jews, the very best of the Goyim are believed to be of less value than a cow. Judeo-Christian values are Satanic.
Christ Killas
John 19
You got it wrong Dennis. I grew up Mormon and Mormons definitely don't believe in one God. I turned this video off and didn't let my son finish watching a false video.n
Pretty sure the Muslims also hold these values though. These 10 values Prager outlined would probably be better labeled as “Abrahamic values.”
There isn't Judeo-Christian values only Christian values Judeo-Christian is an oxymoron.
You should do a video where you expose Islam a plagiarising force that sought to copy from Judeo-Christian religion but injected peadophilia somewhere in there.
Not having absolute free will doesn’t mean you have no responsibility. But hey PragerU is short on facts
THEY'RE TRASH, AS WE'VE LEARNED
Doesn't #7 contradict #9?
The idea that all people are born not basically good, having a sin nature, clearly contradicts the doctrine of freewill, does it not?
If you have freewill to choose concerning every decision that exists in your life, then isnt it your decisions that lead you to do evil, and not a sin nature?
The idea of a sin nature would have need to overrule any freewill to choose, does it not?
I say that it is the benefits that we gather from doing what is evil, by looking forward from the time that we need to decide which road we will take, this lust for the seeming benefit is what causes each man and woman to choose to do what is wrong. Sadly most people do not look far enough into the future to see the judgment of God that will condemn all evildoers. If they did, that in itself would prevent them from doing any evil. This is what is called the fear of God.
Does that not make sense to you?
Thatcher is an evil woman. she wanted to vet rid of our black brothers and sisters
As a gay man, I have some issues with those so-called "Judeo-Christian" values
Top value: debt forgiveness and open borders. Free housing free healthcare free food.
There is no such thing as "Judeo-christian"
I don't know a single rabbi who uses this expression.
Judaism is monotheistic and closer to Islam than Christianity
Christianity is pagan