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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I mean, it is kind of insane that we refer back to some random book - that no one even knows how it was written - to make major decisions in our lives. I mean, are the Jews really God's chosen people? What does that mean for the rest of us? Does God have other choices out there? Are the elephants God's chosen too, over say, the zebras? [/quote]

And they were only God's chosen people till 500 years after the Torah God changed his mind. Try to make sense of that.[/quote]

Well, Jews would disagree with this.

My rabbi actually devoted his Yom Kippur sermon to this question of what it means for Jews to be chosen. He basically said, citing Torah, we were chosen to receive the Torah not because we were so good or virtuous, but because we don’t worship idols and because God still felt loyal to Abraham and Sarah. And that we aren’t the only chosen people — we just happen to be the chosen people in the story we tell about ourselves. But then Christianity spread our story, written as a narrative for ourselves, around the world, and it took on new contexts no Jews intended (and which mostly have not benefited us). Then he also said we need to condemn and confront Jewish supremacy rooted in chosen-ness among our right-wing brethren here and in Israel.

Anyway, it made me think of this thread. [/quote]

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