If You're Chosen, Act It
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It's actually untrue that Israel does not negotiate with terrorists. Many times it has even released scores of enemies to just get back one or a handful of its own people, soldiers in particular. Reply
We Christians are to bless the Jewish people. In fact, those who bless Abraham will be blessed, those who curse Abraham will be cursed. The whole world has been blessed through Israel. Reply
❤It's interesting that the people who deny Jews are the chosen people say negative things and refuse to sign with their names. A reflection of their low self-esteem and their need to hate somebody Reply
Don't the genealogies show that the Jews are connected to Shem the son of Noah? Is that not the origin of the word Semite? Reply
"Anti-Semite" is null & void of any meaning because the jews are not Semites! Reply
Chosen The Jews were chosen to be "monotheists" by God, not because they were the best. That was a challenge in those times. Reply
Choosing to be chosen A bunch of redheaded women get together and say "hey, aren't we different? How we glow! We more glamorous than other people! God must have chosen us for some special purpose.!We'll write books about our chosen-ness, have special leaders trained to teach about our chosen-ness, persuade other redheads that they are chosen, persuade non-redheads that the books are inspired by God so they better believe them. Isn't this what Jews have done? The only people to say that Jews were chosen are Jews. Claiming God chose them provides supreme authority to their claim. Isn't the whole thing transparently self-interested and self-promoting? There isn't a gram of evidence that Jews are different, that they are spiritually priveliged. The behaviour of Jews to Palestinians is abhorrent. They have imprisoned Palestinians behind walls and ghettos, reduced them to penury, imprisoned their elected leaders, imprisoned and shot their children. Jews are parts of God? I don't think so! Reply
We are chosen to be the SERVANTS of G-d. It is not a glamorous title nor a glamorous job. Imagine if the job of garbage collector was chosen at random! I didn't listen to the audio I'm too busy at the moment, but I disagree with any notion of chosenness that puts Jews on a pedestal. We are only human. EVERY living being is a part of G-d, not just Jewish people. And yes the treatment of Palestinians by the modern state of Israel and the military has often been abhorrent, because war is abhorrent, and because governments often abuse their power. But do not blame JEWS for that war, when APPROXIMATELY HALF of us live outside of Israel, and basically all of us just want peace. Some support violence as a means to that end, but many of us don't. Stop homogenizing all of us. It's clear you have deep seated antisemitic beliefs and all of this is just an excuse to back up how you feel. Reply
Assmiliation the answer
If our being assimilated with the world around us would cure anti-semitism, then the holocaust would never have occuredl
Germany was home to very assimilated Jews. I don't think many of them survived the murderous nazis.
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Too many topics to reconcile
The anti-semite and the non-Jew are not always one and the same. Everyone has room to change and grow and a Jew and non-Jew cannot help the other as much as each other.
The anti-semite is not interested in improvement. Anti-semite will not sincerely ask about who a Jew is but, rather how to torment or murder the people who "stand straight".
It is ridiculous to think that anti-semites would question Judaism because they can or mean to change. To live by Jewish law - is already assimilated into basic US law. Anti-semites hate both (as Anne Frank put it, that some people don't want to live morally or civilized & this is what Jews represent) this is true democracys foundation, truck or not. :-)
We are all hated for this. An anti-semite will always be an anti-semite.
That everyone can change, excludes the anti-semites & our history does not lack in examples of people manipulating us; their motive lacks life. What does religion have to do with it?
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iF YOUR'E CHOSEN, ACT IT I do not think it is because we are chosen that bothers non-jews. Some Christian believe they are closen. (Calvin) I think it is because we have not assimulated into the workd around. And will not give up our traditions as old or out dated. I think non-jews do not like that we disagree with them in their belives. Or feel we share common ground. Reply
Yes. I think of something I read in a book on friendship years ago: “It takes maturity to realize that not everyone you meet will like you, and never mind why they don’t.” Reply
This title is apropos as well as having been noticeably forgotten or overlooked.