Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This video is a look at the idea of judeo-christian values as it is employed by american conservatives like PragerU and Ben Shapiro. I examine the history of the term as well as the way it is currently used online.
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Transcript:
Hello everybody. As you know my last video was a reply to Ben Shapiro and he kept repeating the same phrase. “Judeo-Christian Values” And I decided that this concept is worth taking a look at. So, I started up YouTube to see what some of the online opinion havers think it means.
So that’s what this video will be. A summery and possibly mockery of the ideas held by people who talk about Judaeo-Christian values unironically. The first video I would like to highlight is the video titled “What is JUDEO-CHRISTIAN?”. It also has two other titles, presumably to be found more easily. Advice from me to you. YouTube has said that you only need to write one title and you can put the alternative search terms in the description. Your video is just as visible.
This video goes over the very basics. Judeo-Christianity refers to the common traditions between Judaism and Christianity. That is because the old testament from Christianity is Jewish scripture as well which creates common traditions and a shared history. Islam is excluded from this despite being related in the same way. More about that later.
That video mainly goes into the etymology. That means they mostly explain where the word came from. When it was used by who for what reason and so on. The part we care about is that the idea of promoting the United States as a Judeo-Christian nation started in the 1940s. This was as a movement to counter anti-Semitism by highlighting the similarities between the two religions.
This coincided with the rise of Zionism which says that Jewish people should live in Israel. Christian Zionism was on the rise in the USA at the same time. This was motivated by different reasons, among them many very devout Christians believed in the prophecy that the Christian end of the world, the rapture could only happen if Jewish people retuned to Israel.
There are better reasons to support Zionism, for example the holocaust. The reason so many Jewish people died was because no country wanted to accept Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany because there was no Jewish state. They were a minority wherever they lived. So, the establishment of a Jewish state which would always grant refuge to persecuted Jewish people makes a lot of sense.
Of course, that sounds good in theory until someone designates that a piece of land now belongs to someone else and everyone who was there before has to leave now. The Israel-Palestine conflict is really complicated and worth another video. Essentially this Jewish state is in large part dependent on foreign support, especially from the united states because all states around it don’t like it.
So the rise of the idea of Judaeo-Christian values made Zionism a more common position in the united states which is why the US still sends money to Israel every year. Among other things. The idea of Judaeo-Christian values is very convenient for some people. Especially intensely religious Jewish people who want to have some sort of career as conservative politicians.
Can you imagine a political opinion haver, let’s say Ben Shapiro, getting on a stage in the united states and telling the people that they need to follow his Jewish religious values? No of course not. The united states is a majority Christian country. But on the other hand, as a religious jew he can’t just get on a stage and promote Christian values because that would just seem fake to the audience.
So, this concept of Judaeo-Christian values is very convenient to him because it allows him to spread his religious values AND keep intensely religious Christians on his side. That is my theory on why Ben Shapiro uses that concept. And I have to say I get that. Obviously, I oppose the idea of basing any policy in what you think some god wants but I understand it as an attempt to create a sort of unity of religious Jews and Christians against Atheists. Also, ben gets enough antisemitic shit as it is so I get his attempt at combining Christianity and his religion.
This video is a look at the idea of judeo-christian values as it is employed by american conservatives like PragerU and Ben Shapiro. I examine the history of the term as well as the way it is currently used online.
Patreon: patreon.com/viki1999
Subreddit: reddit.com/r/viki1999
Twitter: twitter.com/Viki1999Yt
E-Mail Address: viki1999mail@gmail.com
Links:
Audiopedia: youtube.com/watch?v=ZdfSGTb2BEI
FOCLOnline: youtube.com/watch?v=_F5SSA5biVc
UKIP: youtube.com/watch?v=H2ED8A8RXeY
Trump: youtube.com/watch?v=sAQ1pNg9eeQ
JB Peterson: youtube.com/watch?v=enduikARwRw
PragerU: youtube.com/watch?v=RVD0xik-_FM
Worldcast: youtube.com/watch?v=CSTEdfCsVJU
Saajid: youtube.com/watch?v=95ltobywzr8
Transcript:
Hello everybody. As you know my last video was a reply to Ben Shapiro and he kept repeating the same phrase. “Judeo-Christian Values” And I decided that this concept is worth taking a look at. So, I started up YouTube to see what some of the online opinion havers think it means.
So that’s what this video will be. A summery and possibly mockery of the ideas held by people who talk about Judaeo-Christian values unironically. The first video I would like to highlight is the video titled “What is JUDEO-CHRISTIAN?”. It also has two other titles, presumably to be found more easily. Advice from me to you. YouTube has said that you only need to write one title and you can put the alternative search terms in the description. Your video is just as visible.
This video goes over the very basics. Judeo-Christianity refers to the common traditions between Judaism and Christianity. That is because the old testament from Christianity is Jewish scripture as well which creates common traditions and a shared history. Islam is excluded from this despite being related in the same way. More about that later.
That video mainly goes into the etymology. That means they mostly explain where the word came from. When it was used by who for what reason and so on. The part we care about is that the idea of promoting the United States as a Judeo-Christian nation started in the 1940s. This was as a movement to counter anti-Semitism by highlighting the similarities between the two religions.
This coincided with the rise of Zionism which says that Jewish people should live in Israel. Christian Zionism was on the rise in the USA at the same time. This was motivated by different reasons, among them many very devout Christians believed in the prophecy that the Christian end of the world, the rapture could only happen if Jewish people retuned to Israel.
There are better reasons to support Zionism, for example the holocaust. The reason so many Jewish people died was because no country wanted to accept Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany because there was no Jewish state. They were a minority wherever they lived. So, the establishment of a Jewish state which would always grant refuge to persecuted Jewish people makes a lot of sense.
Of course, that sounds good in theory until someone designates that a piece of land now belongs to someone else and everyone who was there before has to leave now. The Israel-Palestine conflict is really complicated and worth another video. Essentially this Jewish state is in large part dependent on foreign support, especially from the united states because all states around it don’t like it.
So the rise of the idea of Judaeo-Christian values made Zionism a more common position in the united states which is why the US still sends money to Israel every year. Among other things. The idea of Judaeo-Christian values is very convenient for some people. Especially intensely religious Jewish people who want to have some sort of career as conservative politicians.
Can you imagine a political opinion haver, let’s say Ben Shapiro, getting on a stage in the united states and telling the people that they need to follow his Jewish religious values? No of course not. The united states is a majority Christian country. But on the other hand, as a religious jew he can’t just get on a stage and promote Christian values because that would just seem fake to the audience.
So, this concept of Judaeo-Christian values is very convenient to him because it allows him to spread his religious values AND keep intensely religious Christians on his side. That is my theory on why Ben Shapiro uses that concept. And I have to say I get that. Obviously, I oppose the idea of basing any policy in what you think some god wants but I understand it as an attempt to create a sort of unity of religious Jews and Christians against Atheists. Also, ben gets enough antisemitic shit as it is so I get his attempt at combining Christianity and his religion.
