Seems like islam and Judaism are the wild donkey people as they are closer in belief. One worships the sandal, one worships the gourd. Christianity is their bastard love child.

That's a darn good post! I'm not sure about Jews being naturally superior to other people, though. We can certainly respect their ingenuity and their complete refusal to roll over and die. I think, and this is nothing more than an opinion, that the Jews became an extraordinary people because of their desperate struggle against their extinction. I think in other ways, they are as flawed as anyone else. I'm sure you know that God describes them in scripture as a 'stiff-necked' people (Exodus 32:9). Later on, I believe the rabbis turn this criticism into praise for people who would not bow down to anyone, never mind God, without a fight.

@brentan sir....you are the lightbulb in this otherwise dark room. just quit using the "racist" bromide. youre better than that

@holdenc98 I'm arguing against it.

@brentan good. but in todays confederacy of dunces world, "racist" pavlovians me straight to niagra falls..................

@holdenc98 That was very funny but I wouldn't be here if I thought everybody was an idiot.

@brentan perhaps not idiots. but more importantly, theres the distinct possibility that theres a superior strain of agnostic members that are readers only. im always talking to them, and as a "p.s. " (putative smartguy) so should you.

@holdenc98 I hate to think how much I would miss if I only spoke to the avid book readers.

@brentan ...........me: the rancher. you: the horsie who has been led to the water of insightful truth

@holdenc98 Darn! There was I thinking I was a good Nietzschean carving out my independence from traditional values.

@brentan .....knee-chee would never mistake my reference to "readers only" as refering to book readers when by inference it clearly refered to agnostic post readers. but never mind, old and good neo neitcher. time for old neitches to todder off to bed. same with tired old 98 contrarians.

Once you pick somebody above the others you are considered a Racist no matter who you are. They are just Fairy tales anyhow, I never believed in them not even as an altar boy and I was the best at Sunday school and knew all the mass in Latin.

There is considered Jew and everyone else gentle. I would say a little edgy to say racist, but by biblical documentation it is about certain decendents along the family tree.

Yes but the story was probably invented as an indirect way to justify racism. Johovah after all, does not make choices, he does not do anything, because he does not exist. But those who thought of themselves as Abrahams children did, and inventing a story about 'our' predecesseor is a way of defining a pseudo-race into existence.

And, "the good Sheppard " aspect, do you know anything about how animals are bread like making different styles of dogs? The laws of the old testiment "shepherded" the people in ways to weed out bad rebelious children an such as if weeding out those with bad behaviors would cultivate a human animal mentality to follow laws of government.

@Fernapple I think the story was created to unite a people in exile with myths, similar to how nations were created in more recent history. Any Jewish people today who might believe in their superiority due to being a 'chosen people' really need to examine their scriptures properly.

@Word It certainly would have been a terrible place for independent thinkers!

@Sofocleto To think all choice among people is down to racism is daft. What about merit? What about nepotism? There must be many motivations. As for the scriptures being fairytales, I like to think of them as myth or ancient psychology. Your post is based on wishful thinking. Well, learning Latin in Mass is a far cry from learning scripture. It's a blockbuster that I must assume you have not read.

@brentan ...........the best of the jews are atheists, have already rejected wholesale all of this biblical nonsense

@holdenc98 I'm not sure that's provable, but it wouldn't surprise me at all. I don't think you get where I'm coming from. I just want to reject the idea of God choosing the Jews out of a racist motivation. This is not to imply the Bible is true. It is just to say I see nothing written in scripture to to support the idea of a racist Jehovah. Quite the opposite, I think.

Yes Luis Felipe Angell , I lived i Arequipa Peru 6 years , I red his books , the best the Manual of the Perfect deported and I used to buy his weekly single sheet paper news where he put the picture of a general with the title " El Huevon de la semana "

Racism, hate and jealousy are all unproductive emotions.

I try to be receptive and open to everyone but the most irritating statement I have ever heard is " We are the chosen people. "After about three times in a conversation I am hoping they are chosen for unspeakable consequences.