[Jewbacca]

“How did Jews become allergic to their own holy book?”

To accept it requires an often a heavy and scary responsibility -— a point which is OK with me, as G-d helps.

The reason that used to get me is it’s unfair and undemocratic. To me, a modern 21st century man, a person should be free to pick their own fate, not be “chosen.”

[Jewbacca]

And, in clarification, I will accept being chosen. Cheerfully, even.

I, however, reserve the right to bitch about it when I feel like it.

[Zionist Conspirator]

The message I'm getting from your two posts is--and please correct me if I am wrong--that much Jewish (especially American Jewish) antagonism to "Biblical literalism" and to Protestant "Bible thumpers" (who constantly invoke Genesis 12:1-3 and their devotion to it) is guilt of being the Chosen People. That's an interesting take on it.

It'd just be nice if they'd direct some of that ire towards their ancient ancestors who wrote the Bible in the first place instead of displacing it onto people who stumbled onto that Bible at some time in history and became devoted to it.

You know, that could be the reason some Jews are prouder of Jewish Nobel Prize recipients than they are of Moses, Joshua, Pinechas, and Kalev.