I am not condoning antisemitism or blaming the Jewish people as a whole for these actions. Of course, I am referring to the political nation of Israel-then and now. Today, the modern nation of Israel continues the genocide they started thousands of years ago, killing and confining Palestinians who are not, in their minds, the Chosen People. So much that in 1948 they claimed the land again. But somehow, even when defeated and scattered, they maintained the right to be called the Chosen People. When Israel sinned, God used other nations to punish them. In their theology, God was using them to bring judgment on the “sinful” nations that previously occupied Canaan.
#Social empires gods license#
This gave them the license to commit genocide.
The descendants of Jacob were the Chosen People, heirs by divine right. They called it “The Promised Land,” because their theology claimed that God had given it directly to them, and told them to wipe out every native man, woman, and child. Having learned the brutality of their Egyptian oppressors, they then turned that same cruelty on to the indigenous people of Canaan. The Bible tells the story of the Hebrew people who were enslaved in Egypt for four hundred years.
History shows many examples, but today I want to focus on three: Israel, Christendom, and White America. Whenever folks think of themselves as the Chosen People, genocide and violence follow.
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