Maybe me being a non native speaker with only a few years of learning English at school for only 3 hours a week some 45 years ago just had a poor choice of words or maybe what I wrote infuriated you so much, that you missed the details and therefore misunderstood. I had no such intensions. So for clarification: I did not demand anyone to give up their religion, I just suggested Jews give up their "members only" rule. It is more or less quite easy to convert to all the religions you named, but converting to Judaism is almost impossible, takes long time while you never know if you are accepted in the end. A girl I once knew was born to a Christian mother and a Jewish father; from Childhood on she loved to spend time with the Jewish community as she emotionally, spiritually and intellectually saw herself as a Jew. Hoping to be a part of the Jewish community she went through that conversion process in which, if I remember it correctly, she had to study all aspects of Jewish life not only religion and fully dedicate herself to Jewry which he diligently did. After a few years she finally stood in front of some kind of committee, Rabbis I guess, to undergo some kind of test and at the end she was rejected. She was devastated. I don't speak German, but according Internet sources, the correct translation of "the chosen people" when referring to Jews is "das auserwähltes Volk." I wasn´t equating, I was just mentioning that the world might be a bit allergic to people who see themselves above others, especially after the Third Reich with the Nazis, who saw their race somehow favored by nature and superior to others which is why they called themselves the Herrenrasse, the race of the lords. Jews believe that God created all humanity but somehow considered only them to be worthy enough to agree on a formal contract with or as you call it, the covenant. And that is in my opinion a bit problematic as it opens doors to "legal" abominations were perpetrators won´t second-guess or even suffer from a bad conscious as a higher power told them or enabled them to act like that and will take full responsibility for that. "I am from the best race of entire humanity. It is my duty to wipe out minor races same as nature´s law about the survival of the fittest has done since the beginning of time." "I am chosen by God. My God told my ancestors to kill all Amalekites including women, children and livestock. That´s why every man, woman and child in Gaza is my enemy and there is no sin in killing them. There are no innocents in Gaza." The last sentence can be heard quite often in interviews with Israelis. That is debatable as there are other ways to reduce or even eliminate anti-semitism, one of them being what I suggested, giving up this elite club behavior. Don´t you see the moral double standard in what you wrote. Jews insist on a Jewish homeland as they can only rely on themselves to protect them from murder, rape, displacement and dispossession and then create and expand that homeland by murder, rape, displacement and dispossession of the native population. And please don´t tell me Jews are the only true native people to Palestine. Your European appearance and genetics, you other than the Palestinians being allergic to the native olive tree pollen and many other facts tell another story and legally it´s simply "Move your feet, lose your seat". No one can come back after Thousands of years and claim land ownership. If so, US Americans would be in big trouble now.
