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Opening Insights: Complacency and Wishful Thinking<\/h2>\n

First they came for the Jews<\/em>
\nand I did not speak out<\/em>
\nbecause I was not a Jew.<\/em><\/p>\n

Then they came for the Communists<\/em>
\nand I did not speak out<\/em>
\nbecause I was not a Communist.<\/em><\/p>\n

Then they came for the trade unionists<\/em>
\nand I did not speak out<\/em>
\nbecause I was not a trade unionist.<\/em><\/p>\n

Then they came for me<\/em>
\nand there was no one left to speak for me.<\/em>
\nMARTIN NIEM\u00d6LLER<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Judeo-Christian values are quickly being replaced. Principles, morals, values and heritage are all dying out.<\/p>\n

Anti-Semitism is out of control around the world. Churches are losing their fellowships, closing down and being replaced with mosques and skyscrapers.<\/p>\n

Complacency and wishful thinking will not magically bring them back.<\/p>\n

We are being bombarded politically, and even religiously,<\/em> by many leaders calling for compassion, tolerance and \u201cequality.\u201d Communities across Europe and around the world are becoming more complacent under the guise of compassion and equality. \u201cSharia law\u201d <\/em>is becoming increasingly accepted in many traditionally Christian countries (UK, France, Sweden, Germany...). Many Muslims (who came, sought and found refuge in new countries) and liberals appear unaccepting and intolerant of the culture, country and people (Non-Muslims and liberals) who founded and built the country they just entered. They seek to change their hosts.<\/em><\/p>\n

The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this:
\nthat all reality hinges on moral foundations.
\nIn other words, that this is a moral universe,
\nand that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws.
\n(from \"Rediscovering Lost Values\")
\n<\/i>MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.<\/p>\n

Why Judeo-Christian Values are Important?<\/h3>\n

Those who believe in nothing are very,
\nvery jealous and angry at those who believe in something.<\/em>
\nDENNIS PRAGER<\/p>\n

The United States of America is the only country in history to have defined itself as Judeo-Christian. While the Western world has consisted of many Christian countries and consists today of many secular countries, only America has called itself Judeo-Christian. America is also unique in that it has always combined secular government with a society based on religious values.<\/p>\n

But what does \u201cJudeo-Christian\u201d mean? We need to know. Along with the belief in liberty \u2014 as opposed to, for example, the European belief in equality, the Muslim belief in theocracy, and the Eastern belief in social conformity \u2014 Judeo-Christian values are what distinguish America from all other countries. That is why American coins feature these two messages: \u201cIn God we trust\u201d and \u201cLiberty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet, for all its importance and its repeated mention, the term is not widely understood. It urgently needs to be because it is under ferocious assault, and if we do not understand it, we will be unable to defend it. And if we cannot defend it, America will become as amoral as France, Germany, Russia, et al.<\/p>\n

First, Judeo-Christian America has differed from Christian countries in Europe in at least two important ways. One is that the Christians who founded America saw themselves as heirs to the Old Testament, the Hebrew Bible, as much as to the New. And even more importantly, they strongly identified with the Jews.<\/p>\n

For example, Thomas Jefferson wanted the design of the seal of the United States to depict the Jews leaving Egypt. Just as the Hebrews left Egypt and its values, Americans left Europe and its values (if only those who admire Jefferson would continue to take his advice).<\/p>\n

Founders and other early Americans probably studied Hebrew, the language of the Old Testament, at least as much as Greek, the language of the New. Yale, founded in 1701, adopted a Hebrew insignia, and Hebrew was compulsory at Harvard until 1787. The words on the Liberty Bell, \u201cProclaim Liberty throughout all the land . . . ,\u201d are from the Torah. Vast numbers of Americans took Hebrew names \u2014 like Benjamin Franklin and Cotton Mather (kattan in Hebrew means \u201clittle one\u201d or \u201cyounger\u201d).<\/p>\n

The consequences included a strong Old Testament view of the world \u2014 meaning, in part, a strong sense of fighting for earthly justice, an emphasis on laws, a belief in a judging, as well as a loving and forgiving, God, and a belief in the chosenness of the Jews which America identified with.<\/p>\n

The significance of this belief in American chosenness cannot be overstated.
\nIt accounts for the mission that Americans have uniquely felt called to \u2014 to spread liberty in the world.<\/p>\n

This sense of mission is why more Americans have died for the liberty of others than any other nation\u2019s soldiers.<\/p>\n

It is why those who today most identify with the Judeo-Christian essence of America are more likely to believe in the moral worthiness of dying to liberate countries \u2014 not only Europe, but Korea, Vietnam and Iraq. That is why America stands alone in protecting two little countries threatened with extinction, Israel and Taiwan. That is why conservative Americans are more likely to believe in American exceptionalism \u2014 in not seeking, as President Bush put it, a \u201cpermission slip\u201d from the United Nations, let alone from Europe.<\/p>\n

The second meaning of Judeo-Christian is a belief in the biblical God of Israel, in His Ten Commandments and His biblical moral laws. It is a belief in universal, not relative, morality. It is a belief that America must answer morally to this God, not to the mortal, usually venal, governments of the world.<\/p>\n

That is why those who most affirm Judeo-Christian values lead the fight against redefining marriage. We believe that a pillar of Judeo-Christian values is to encourage the man-woman sexual and marital ideal, and to provide children with the opportunity to benefit from the unique gifts that a man and a woman give a child, gifts that are never replicable by two men alone or two women.<\/p>\n

That is why those who most affirm Judeo-Christian values are unmoved by the idea that the war in Iraq is moral if Germany, France, China and Russia say so, but immoral if they oppose it. We ask first what God and the Bible would say about liberating Iraq, not what Syria and other members of the U.N. Security Council say.<\/p>\n

That is why those who most affirm Judeo-Christian values believe that war, while always tragic, is on more than a few occasions a moral duty. Nothing \u201cJudeo\u201d ever sanctioned pacifism. Of course, the Hebrew Prophet Isaiah yearned for the day that nations will beat their swords into plowshares. But another Hebrew Prophet, Joel, who is never cited by those who wish to read the secular value of pacifism into the Bible, said precisely the opposite: \u201cBeat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling say, \u2018I am strong!'\u201d<\/p>\n

And that is why those who want Judeo-Christian values to disappear from American public life affirm multiculturalism, seek to remove mention of God from all public life, and make Christmas a private, not a national, holiday.<\/p>\n

The battle over whether America remains Judeo-Christian or becomes secular like Europe is what this, the Second American Civil War, is about.<\/p>\n

Source: \/\/www.dennisprager.com\/what-does-judeo-christian-mean\/<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity.
\n<\/i> SHMULEY BOTEACH<\/p>\n

THE QUESTION IS NOT WHAT<\/em> TO DO, BUT HOW<\/em> WILL WE<\/em> REVERSE THE SOCIAL CONDITIONING (LACK OF VALUES) AND EMPOWER PEOPLE, YOUNG AND OLD WITH JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES! <\/strong><\/p>\n

The problem is systemic \u2013 involving all stakeholders within the community, hence we need a systemic solution to address the SYMPTOMS and the CAUSE. Traditional means of preaching Judeo-Christian values are failing and in many cases are turning people away. The problem is:<\/p>\n