{"id":186,"date":"2009-01-16T11:29:47","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T11:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2009\/01\/the-judeo-christian-debate.html"},"modified":"2009-01-16T11:29:47","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T11:29:47","slug":"the-judeo-christian-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2009\/01\/the-judeo-christian-debate.html","title":{"rendered":"The Judeo-Christian debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Razib has started an interesting debate on the meaning and value of the concept, &#8220;Judeo-Christian&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gnxp\/2009\/01\/justify_judeo-christianity.php\">his initial post<\/a> attracted a vigorous discussion, a <a href=\"http:\/\/rossdouthat.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2009\/01\/christian_muslim_jew.php\">response from Ross Douthat <\/a>at The Atlantic, and <a href=\"http:\/\/talkislam.info\/2009\/01\/16\/in-my-discussion-about-the-term-judeo-ch\/\">lively discussion at Talk Islam<\/a>. Frankly I think that the phrase &#8220;Judeo-Islamic&#8221; is a more defensible construct (agreeing with Razib&#8217;s general point). <\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/talkislam.info\/tag\/judeo-christian\/\">follow the entire debate via this link<\/a> at Talk Islam. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Razib has started an interesting debate on the meaning and value of the concept, &#8220;Judeo-Christian&#8221; &#8211; his initial post attracted a vigorous discussion, a response from Ross Douthat at The Atlantic, and lively discussion at Talk Islam. Frankly I think that the phrase &#8220;Judeo-Islamic&#8221; is a more defensible construct (agreeing with Razib&#8217;s general&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[105,24,110],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-read-this","tag-christianity","tag-islam","tag-judaism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Judeo-Christian debate - City of Brass<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Judeo-Christian debate - City of Brass\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My friend Razib has started an interesting debate on the meaning and value of the concept, &#8220;Judeo-Christian&#8221; &#8211; his initial post attracted a vigorous discussion, a response from Ross Douthat at The Atlantic, and lively discussion at Talk Islam. 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The name City of Brass refers to the Story of the City of Brass in the Thousand and One Nights, and the poem by Rudyard Kipling of the same name: Here was a people whom, after their works, thou shalt see wept over for their lost dominion; And in this palace is the last information respecting lords collected in the dust. -- Thousand and One Nights, Story of the City of Brass IN A land that the sand overlays, the ways to her gates are untrod, A multitude ended their days whose fates were made splendid by God, Till they grew drunk and were smitten with madness and went to their fall, And of these is a story written: but Allah Alone knoweth all! -- Rudyard Kipling, The City of Brass (1909)"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}