God is a Racist

Thanks for joining the debate and putting forward your three arguments which I would like to adress in turn. Firstly, you wrote: "There are many other religions around, some far bigger than the jiddisch religion." Very true, and they all have their various deities. The reason I chose the deity Jews call "God" is that he is the only deity I know who is a racist. Then you wrote "Second, an equal interpretation of Deuteronomy 14:2 could be: the people of Israel (in the context of the old testament) are God's most loved people. This however doesn't imply in any way that God doesn't care about the others nor that they can't earn eternal life." At the risk of appearing impertinent I would like to address that point by offering you the following analogy: In your photograph you are embracing a young lady, presumably your girlfriend or wife. While I'm sure you like lots of women, there's only one you share your bed with.* It's the same with God, he doesn't hate all non-Jews, it's just there's a sign on the Pearly Gates that reads: "Jews Only, Strictly No Gentiles". I mean he wouldn't let me in, for example. Firstly because I didn't believe he existed when I was alive, secondly because the smell of my bacon sandwiches in the morning would upset the neighbours and thirdly because I called him a racist. You also wrote: "…i'm sure you'll be able to dig deeper in those old testament books to find something against my second point…" I'm sure I could as well, but trawling through religious scriptures is very dull work so can we just "take it as read" that I did and leave it at that? Then you wrote: "Third and last: let us even presume it is true that all the other go to hell. Now, people can only be jew by being born out of a jewish mother. Now, let's assume a jewish woman marries someone from a totally different place with a totally different skin. They get a daughter and she does the same. And so on. In the end, you can have a legitimate jewish person from a totally different race and with hardly any link to the original tribe. (only a factor of 1/(2^n) with n=generation is still from the original tribe's genepool ;)) So God's preference would not be based on race in that case, so it ain't racism hence God ain't a racist." Using that reasoning, you could argue that there is no such thing as Anti-Semitism, which there is.** That's because, even if you weren't born a Jew, they will still let you join if you want to (I don't know what the procedure is, I expect you pick an application form at your local synagogue), but when the Torah was written most Jews were Israelites and they were God's "Chosen People", and it is mainly their descendents that make up today's Jewish population. So, although God may let one or two Jewish converts into heaven (like Sammy Davis Jr.) most Jews in the afterlife will be of Hebrew decent, thus proving that God is a racist. *You may sleep with more than one woman, on separate occasions or at the same time, I don't know and it's none of my business, I just used the relationship between two lovers as a metaphor for the relationship between God and his followers. ** If Hitler hadn't committed suicide and had, instead, stood trial at Nuremberg, his defence lawyer could have argued that he wasn't Anti-Semitic because Semitic people include Arabs as well as people of Hebrew decent and Hitler didn't have anything against the Arabs.