What Are Judeo-Christian Values? | 5-Minute Videos — Transcript

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1. 0:02have you ever heard the term
2. 0:04judeo-christian values I suspect you
3. 0:06have can you name any of those values I
4. 0:10suspect you can't
5. 0:12but you should because judeo-christian
6. 0:14values are the moral Foundation of
7. 0:17Western Civilization
8. 0:19as the Great British prime minister
9. 0:21Margaret Thatcher put it the truths of
10. 0:24the judeo-christian tradition are
11. 0:26infinitely precious not only because
12. 0:28they are true but also because they
13. 0:31provide the moral impulse which alone
14. 0:34can lead to that peace for which we all
15. 0:37long
16. 0:38Mrs Thatcher was a believing Christian I
17. 0:41am a believing Jew while we have
18. 0:44different theologies we have the same
19. 0:46core values and as far as society's
20. 0:49concern moral values are far more
21. 0:52important than theologies
22. 0:55that is why traditionally religious
23. 0:57Protestants Catholics Mormons and Jews
24. 0:59are aligned on almost every important
25. 1:02moral issue
26. 1:04here then are ten of those values
27. 1:07number one there is one God that God is
28. 1:11the god introduced to the World by the
29. 1:13Hebrew Bible or as Christians came to
30. 1:15refer to it the Old Testament
31. 1:18number two the Hebrew Bible introduced
32. 1:21the most revolutionary moral idea in
33. 1:24history that there are objective moral
34. 1:27truths just as there are objective
35. 1:29mathematical and scientific truths
36. 1:32without God there is no moral truth only
37. 1:36moral opinions number three because
38. 1:38there are moral truths good and evil are
39. 1:41the same for all people
40. 1:44number four God not man not government
41. 1:48not popular opinion not a democratic
42. 1:51vote is the source of our rights
43. 1:54the American Declaration of Independence
44. 1:57declares that all men are endowed by
45. 2:01their creator with certain unalienable
46. 2:04rights number five the human being is
47. 2:06created in the image of God therefore
48. 2:09every human life is precious and
49. 2:12therefore race is of no significance
50. 2:14because God has no race number six the
51. 2:19world is based on divine order and order
52. 2:22is made by distinctions
53. 2:25among these Divine distinctions are God
54. 2:28and man God and nature
55. 2:31man and woman human and animal good and
56. 2:37evil number seven man is not basically
57. 2:41good Christians speak of original sin in
58. 2:44referring to man's nature Jews cite what
59. 2:47God said in Genesis the will of man's
60. 2:49heart is evil from his youth both
61. 2:52beliefs are diametrically opposed to the
62. 2:55naive modern belief that man is
63. 2:58basically good
64. 2:59and they lead to the same conclusion we
65. 3:03need god-based rules to keep us from our
66. 3:06natural inclinations
67. 3:08number eight therefore our natural
68. 3:11inclinations are a very poor moral guide
69. 3:15as religious Jews and Christians put it
70. 3:17don't follow your heart
71. 3:20a lot of terrible things have been done
72. 3:22and are being done now by people
73. 3:24thinking their hearts are better guides
74. 3:27than judeo-christian values
75. 3:29number nine human beings have free will
76. 3:32and are therefore responsible for how
77. 3:35they behave in the secular world free
78. 3:38will does not exist because all human
79. 3:40behavior is the result of biology and
80. 3:42environment and if there is no free will
81. 3:45people are not responsible for what they
82. 3:48do good or bad number 10.
83. 3:52The Ten Commandments they are the core
84. 3:55of judeo-christian values in fact if
85. 3:57everyone lived just by The Ten
86. 3:59Commandments we wouldn't need armies or
87. 4:02even police
88. 4:04there's another important aspect to the
89. 4:06term judeo-christian the two religions
90. 4:09need each other without the Old
91. 4:11Testament there is no New Testament
92. 4:14virtually every Christian moral
93. 4:16principle derives from the Hebrew Bible
94. 4:18not only the 10 Judea Christian values I
95. 4:21just enumerated but such basic moral
96. 4:24principles as love your neighbor as
97. 4:26yourself love the Lord your God and love
98. 4:29The Stranger
99. 4:30at the same time Jews need Christians it
100. 4:34was overwhelmingly Christians who
101. 4:36carried knowledge of the Hebrew Bible to
102. 4:38the world
103. 4:39judeo-christian refers to one other fact
104. 4:42no religions in the world share a common
105. 4:44Revelation the way Judaism and
106. 4:46Christianity do
107. 4:47that common Revelation is the Hebrew
108. 4:50Bible
109. 4:50the only two religions that share that
110. 4:52Bible or any sacred work are Judaism and
111. 4:56Christianity the ultimate embodiment of
112. 4:59judeo-christian values has been the
113. 5:01United States of America
114. 5:03America's Founders were Christians some
115. 5:06culturally some theologically who were
116. 5:09rooted in the Old Testament
117. 5:11so much so that Thomas Jefferson and
118. 5:13Benjamin Franklin designed a seal for
119. 5:16the United States
120. 5:18that depicted God leaving Israel out of
121. 5:21Egypt just as they believed God was
122. 5:23leading America out of Europe only if we
123. 5:27keep these values will we keep America
124. 5:29and for that matter
125. 5:31Western Civilization
126. 5:34I'm Dennis Prager
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