Reply #77: Only when it suits their purposes

[Jai4WKC08]

If they really gave the old testament any credence, cheeseburgers wouldn't be so popular. And lesbian relationships would be A-OK.

Fwiw, I wouldn't say that all Jews believe we're the chosen people. Some do, especially our own fundamentalists.

Here's the story, as best I remember it. Jacob, the son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham, wrestled with an angel. When he wouldn't give up, the angel had to give him and his descendents a blessing, and he renamed him "Israel," which is said to literally mean "struggle with God." So all the descendents of Jacob came to be known as Israel, or Israelites, or the people of Israel from then on. It was a common practice back then to name a people after a patriarch, altho it may have happened the other way around--some scholars believe that the early Bible characters are really some sort of personification of the indiginous people of the time.

Anyway, it really hasn't much to do with the political nation of Israel today. In fact, many of our fundies do not support Israel as a political entity because of the prophecy that the people of Israel should not return to the promised land until the Messiah comes.

So I would bet real money that whoever was sporting the bumper sticker was no Jew, but a fundie Christian.