Chosen People

1. It is funny how those, who believe that God chooses some and not others, always believe they are one of the chosen ones. (1/3/13)and he and in
2.  "The concept of a 'chosen people' is similar to that of a 'master race'. These two ideas are, however, opposites. A chosen people is called to serve; a master race to dominate. The characteristic emotion of a chosen people is humility; that of a master race is pride. A master race sees victory in terms of its own merits; a chosen people attributes it to God. A master race sees defeat as humiliation; a chosen people sees it as a call to repentance. A master race commemorates its victories in monumental architecture. A chosen people does the opposite: it records its defeats and shortcomings. Indeed, there is no more self-critical literature than the Hebrew Bible - an ongoing story of failures, back-slidings and derelictions of duty. A chosen people lives under the constant possibility of judgement, and thus also of re-dedication, repentance, metanoia." -Rabbi Jonathan Sachs, The Home We Build Together: Recreating Society, p. 121. (11/12/12)