Unicorns and Judeo-Christians

Tuesday, February 27, 2007




His clients are "devout Judeo-Christians" averred the attorney -- orally and in filings here (first page, Introduction) and here (page 1, Statement). No one laughed out loud, but during the hearing I put a an index finger and thumb to my chin and saw puzzled glances elsewhere in the courtroom.
http://massresistance.com/docs/parker_lawsuit/complaint.html

This not only appeared repeatedly in the Mad Dad case in federal court. This specious and oxymoronic epithet turns out to have been brought back from a well-deserved death several times. Today, like a golem, it is serving its extremist masters politically.
http://massmarrier.blogspot.com/2007/02/mad-dad-quirk-of-court.html

You don't need to look very far on the Net or in a library to get your fill of Judeo-Christian values, Judeo-Christians, and Judeo-Christian worldview. Its coinage and usage have been as first a propaganda device and more recently as a political/public-relations gimmick. Today, it really is camouflaged code for increased theocracy disguised as merely wanting to maintain positive moral teaching.

Most citations are on right-wing Websites and many of these include calls for theocratic political aims. A few are way out there. There are Judeo-Christian tattoo sites http://www.religioustattoos.net/ (the one above taken from one)

...dating connections, jewelry selections, and a health center.
http://www.judeochristianhealthclinic.org/

The most bizarre take on the term surely has to be from a Ku Klux Klan site.
http://www.wckkkk.com/identity.html

While many racists seem to like the phrase, this group goes beyond disdaining Judeo-Christian. They deny that the Ahrahamic patriarchs -- and even Jesus -- were Jewish (that would be lowercase on their site).


Curiouser and curiouser... http://www.sabian.org/alicech2.htm

More:
http://massmarrier.blogspot.com/2007/02/unicorns-and-judeo-christians.html

because of The Holocaust)

'Biblical Christianity'? I.e. it's followers get to pick and choose Old Testament laws that they like.

BTW what does "unicorn" mean in this context? Or is just a saying?

On edit: I get it now. Unicorns don't exist.

Anglo-Israelism's been around at least since the late 1700s, with whiffs of it occurring in Britain for a couple hundred years before that. It's cyclical, and Anglo-Israelism is in tension with things like the Arthurian legend.

One sociological review of the idea points to the economic and political circumstances of the day when the idea had currency. Typically Anglo-Israelism got supporters when the conditions were bad, as a way of saying that they also had honor, gaining dignity from the House of David and sanguineal affinity of the British rulers with their Savior. When the monarchy was on the rise or had a lot of international clout, the Arthurian legend was dominant, "see, we have good *native* roots and did it on our own".

The same kind of thing was prevalent in Austria in the 1200s (Austrians = descendants of Abraham, and had always been there ... those pesky Slavs are intruders), and in Palestine today. Even the Salafists try to capture reflected glory and honor, since they have no basis for glory on their own.