America’s Christian values are Judeo-Christian values

Should American Jews feel a lack of inclusion, on Christmas or at other events, when their leaders take the opportunity to reaffirm the Christian values upon which the nation was founded? At least one person has noticed that something important is being overlooked.

Writer, Aliza Pilichowski, in her recent article entitled, Separation of church and state and US-Israeli relations, was clearly put off by Vice-president J.D. Vance, in his recent Turning Point speech, for stating that, “the United States of America will always be a Christian nation.”

Surprisingly, it wasn’t because she felt that his declaration was establishing Christianity as the official religion of America, an act which would have violated the separation of church and state, guaranteeing that one religion is not favored over the other, but rather due to the “lack of understanding of Christianity” – forgetting that “almost all Christian values are based on Judaism’s values of ethical monotheism.”

Pilchowski is quite right in her contention, and, consequently, Vance should have more accurately framed his characterization as “Judeo Christian” values, duly crediting the Jewish scriptures for playing a pivotal role in America’s ethics.

Someone recently said that Jews were safer in an America which retains its Christian principles, and that was likely because no one who is a true follower of and believer in the Jewish scriptures, which is part and parcel of the Christian faith, would ever turn against Israel.

Those scriptures clearly teach that Israel is the apple of God’s eye, that He established her to be a light to the nations and that through her all the nations of the world would be blessed. (Zech. 2:8, Isa. 49:6, Gen. 22:18)

Perhaps, the most convincing scripture of all is God’s passion expressed for Israel in Jeremiah 31:3, stating, “I have loved you with an everlasting love.” That leaves no room for permanent abandonment or the kind of hateful vilification of some so-called Christians who believe that God is done with the Jewish people.

Anyone who despises the Jewish people or their homeland, indeed, as Pilichowski writes, has a “lack of understanding about Christianity.”  But it’s even worse than that, because in that displayed ignorance, they have replaced Israel by inserting themselves into that space reserved only for the Jewish people.

That faulty presumption, in my opinion, is based upon jealousy and envy – the same ugly sentiments which were surely rife throughout 2,000 years of persecution by so-called Christians, who did not pattern their feelings after the God they claimed they served.

Unlike those who turned against the Jews, most of today’s evangelical community love and support Israel, stand by her and come regularly to visit.

Consequently, any expressions of their Christian faith, such as the one made by Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth who stated, “Today we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,” should not have come as an offense to anyone, despite it sounding as an “overtly religious term,” per Asaf Elia-Shalev of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, a Jewish media outlet.

For Elia-Shalev, Hegseth’s message, as well as a few others in the Trump administration, including “a video from the Department of Homeland Security which said, “We are blessed to share a nation and a Savior” is a departure from “previous presidents who used more universally inclusive themes.”

Seeing these types of federal posts is apparently a matter of concern for some who see this as being insensitive to religious minorities. But haven’t we had a good look at where over-consideration of religious minorities has taken us? 

Most of the world, in their desire to appear fair-minded and tolerant, chose to open their doors wide to many of these minorities who, in the end, not only did not respect Judeo-Christian values but proved that they were dedicated to putting an end to them.

While America has never sought to enforce one religion for its people, it does have the right to refer to its core foundation as one which prescribes to the scriptures. Doing so does not obligate anyone to follow those tenets of faith, but, in the case of Islam, there is an injunction to forcibly convert non-believers or defeat them by the sword.

This is the enormous difference between the values espoused by the present U.S. administration as opposed to the twisted ideology of radical Islam which has invaded every continent in the hope of ensuring that a state religion, adopting their beliefs is implemented.

That is a concern which no Jewish person has to fear, provided that America remains a nation which preserves its Judeo-Christian biblical truths. By doing so, the writings of the prophets – all of whom were Jewish, remain front and center as the only sentiments which align with God, Almighty.

Anything that differs from those expressions reveals a betrayal of those ordinances and a broken allegiance to the words which were inspired by the Creator.

Such individuals have rewritten their own version of the scriptures which are neither viewed as the infallible word of God or divinely inspired, because they contradict the message that the Jewish people were chosen, among all others, to reveal God’s plan and purposes for all people.

How can they justify that the course was changed midway, with another group of individuals suddenly taking up the mantle of the Jewish people?  This is the great flaw in Replacement Theology, which supposes that God has abandoned His people and found another to resume the job He gave specifically to B’nai Israel (the sons of Israel).

Today’s American evangelical community almost overwhelmingly reject that concept, knowing the danger it espouses, both for Jews and also for themselves. They are not vying for the spot they know has been divinely promised to the Jewish people. Instead, they continue to support Israel and pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

They are the true friends of the Jewish state, knowing that God will yet reveal His full plan to the world through the Jewish people! For that reason, no one has to be concerned that the American government has taken a decidedly different turn.

The fact that former presidents were less fervent about their faith does not make this administration a threat to Jews or other minorities. If anything, it reaffirms its commitment to them, because Judeo-Christian scriptures protect everyone!