Which is the correct tree?^*
One could argue that this is fallacious insofar as Judaism is the "ancestor" of both Islam and Christianity, but my own opinion is that the Jewish traditions of this day and age (including "Orthodox" Judaism) are very different from ancient Judaism (the transition from ancient to modern Judaism might be analogized to anagenesis, while the relationship between Christianity and ancient Judaism is more like cladogenesis). In the United States the term "Judeo-Christian" became popular after World War II as the "Protestant-Catholics-Jew" alignment was used to characterize the piety of the American republic (the core of the "civic religion"). But my own experience with Jews is that substantively they are skeptical of the "Judeo-Christian" concept because it is Muslims who are, unlike Christians, uncontestably monotheists. Though the contingencies of history place Judaism and Christianity in alliance, there is a tacit implication from many of my acquaintances ...
