Maria Raffaela

Maria Raffaela
Great-Grandmom

Monday, March 21, 2016

Is America a Judeo-Chrisian country?


Senator Marco Rubio, in his speech ending his campaign, said that America is a Judeo-Christian country.  I have been thinking about that remark ever since and his comment bothers me.
I don’t understand now a United States Senator who is running for President of the United States thinks that America is a Judeo-Christian country.  Is Florida, his home state, so monolithic in population?  Has he never traveled to Manhattan, Chicago, Honolulu, San Francisco or Los Angeles, Minnesota, or Texas?  If he walked up Seventh Avenue in Manhattan from Penn Station to Columbus Circle, he would quickly hear dozens of languages from people of every skin color in the world.  That trip alone should convince him that there are a lot of people who are neither Jewish nor Christian.  If he took New Jersey Transit he might find himself the only Caucasian in the car.  He should travel to Minnesota to meet the large group of Sudanese refugees there.  If he went to Texas, he would not only meet the millions of Hispanic citizens, he would meet the large group of Viet-Namese refugees who settled there.  On the West Coast and in Hawaii, he would encounter millions of Japanese and Chinese Americans.  The Japanese American family could tell him about the terrible way they were treated during World War II by Christian America.

America has thousands of Hindi, Muslim, Shinto, Buddhist, and every other religion in the world.  Our people come from just about every country as well.  America is no longer a Judeo-Christian country, if it ever was.  During and after World War II, the white Anglo-Saxon Protestant citizens did everything they could to limit the number of Jewish refugees admitted to America to escape almost sure death in the Nazi concentration camps.  Meanwhile anti -Semitism was rampant in America.  I do not think that qualifies America as a “Judeo-Christian” nation.

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