It said gay marriage would "effectively demolish generations and centuries of societal norms established on Judaeo-Christian values".

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Many, including his parents, settled in Israel, and continued the culture that Dalal describes as "Jewish Babylonian" or "Judaeo-Arab".

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He argues that it is a lingering ghost of the Judaeo-Christian worldview among philosophers who ought to know better.

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The message of the Judaeo-Christian religious heritage, for instance, is that doing evil to others is a sin, extolling the virtues of mercy, forgiveness, charity, love, and pacifism.

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That was in March 1995, when members of the Aum Shinrikyo (Supreme Truth) sect preaching a bizarre distortion of Hindu, Buddhist and Judaeo-Christian beliefs unleashed a nerve gas called sarin in the Tokyo subway, killing 12 people and injuring several thousand.

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