Judeo-Christian ethics

===1980s and 1990s===

By the 1980s and 1990s, favorable references to "Judeo-Christian values" were common, and the term was used by [[Christian right|conservative Christians]].<ref>Douglas Hartmann,  Xuefeng Zhang, and William Wischstadt. "One (Multicultural) Nation Under God? Changing Uses and Meanings of the Term" Judeo-Christian" in the American Media." Journal of Media and Religion 4.4 (2005): 207-234.</ref>

President [[Ronald Reagan]] frequently emphasized Judeo-Christian values as necessary ingredients in the fight against Communism. He argued that the Bible contains "all the answers to the problems that face us."<ref>John Kenneth White, ''Still Seeing Red: How the Cold War Shapes the New American Politics'' (1998) p 138</ref>   Reagan disapproved of the growth of secularism and emphasized the need to take the idea of sin seriously.<ref>{{cite book|author=Steven F. Hayward|title=The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution, 1980-1989|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AORr5--U-MgC&pg=PA290|year=2010|page=290}}</ref> [[Tom Freiling]], a Christian publisher and head of a conservative PAC, stated in his 2003 book, ''Reagan's God and Country'', that "Reagan's core religious beliefs were always steeped in traditional Judeo-Christian heritage."<ref>{{cite book|author=Tom Freiling|title=Reagan's God and Country: A President's Moral Compass|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3zOroK1Fag0C&pg=PA19|year=2003|page=19}}</ref>  Religion—and the Judeo-Christian concept—was a major theme in Reagan's rhetoric by 1980.<ref>{{cite book|author=Brian T. Kaylor|title=Presidential Campaign Rhetoric in an Age of Confessional Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GdLSmGQLqhgC&pg=PA46|year=2010|pages=46–48}}</ref>

President [[Bill Clinton]] during his 1992 presidential campaign, likewise emphasized the role of religion in society, and in his personal life, having made references to the Judeo-Christian tradition.<ref>{{cite book|author=Brian T. Kaylor|title=Presidential Campaign Rhetoric in an Age of Confessional Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GdLSmGQLqhgC&pg=PA77|year=2010|pages=77–78}}</ref>

The term became especially significant in American politics, and, promoting "Judeo-Christian values" in the [[culture wars]], usage surged in the 1990s.<ref name="Hartmann">Douglas Hartmann, Xuefeng Zhang, William Wischstadt (2005). One (Multicultural) Nation Under God? Changing Uses and Meanings of the Term "Judeo-Christian" in the American Media. ''Journal of Media and Religion'' '''4(4)''', 207-234</ref>