re: The attacks on America’s Judeo-Christian foundation and how that founding came to be

I disagree. While it is popular these days to distinguish the differences between Christians and Jews, it is impossible to take a serious look at Christian philosophy and not see the importance of the Old Testament. Jesus is the culmination of the religion, not the sole author, not the sole source of knowledge. Jesus’s teachings built upon the foundations of Hebrew traditions going back to Moses and Abraham before him.

It may be trendy, especially in Protestant circles, to devalue the Old Testament, and only bring it up when convenient to condemn gay people or say “see how this prophet was talking about Jesus”, but there’s so much more good stuff in there like Proverbs, psalms, and the many stories of God’s love and power like Jonah, Job, The Exodus, David, Joshua, Solomon, The Macabees, etc.

As far as our culture being more Greco-Roman, you’re not entirely off base. Our society in many ways is based on Rome and Rome’s ability to incorporate and imitate the cultures of other conquered peoples (like the Greeks, Egyptians, Celts, and Judaeans). However, while our institutions are Roman, our philosophy is a result of how Christianity profoundly took the writings of the Greeks and Romans and molded them into something wholly unique. It is that blend of Old Testament Judaism, leading to Christianity which then took over and Christianized Roman, Celtic, Nordic, and Germanic societies. Western civilization is the result of all of this cultural diffusion, mixing, and building atop one-another.

I think Judeo-Christian is actually a very apt label today.