[chuck_the_tv_out]

Exactly! Satan took bits of the Bible out of context too.

How about the CONTEXT of that misquoted verse, Romans 24-27:

For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree? For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

[Zionist Conspirator]

That's all well and good, but my point was that since Jewish survival despite all odds for four thousand years constitutes evidence for the truth of G-d and the Torah, atheists and "enlightenment" types deal with this by turning the Jews from G-d's Chosen People to The People That Religion Persecutes. Thus the miracle of Jewish survival, instead of witnessing to the existence of G-d, somehow occurred despite G-d. Hence the tendency of atheists to wave the Jewish people like a flag when everything about the Jewish mission is antithetical to atheism and indeed to the entire "enlightened" philosophy of the west (Judaism is actually closer to islam than to chr*stianity in being a statutory religion).

These same atheists ignore the fact that Torah Jews live their lives according to a "totalitarian" Theocratic discipline that atheists imagine in their nightmares, but which they somehow see Jewishness as opposed to.

BTW, the great "champion of reason" Voltaire was a seething anti-Semite (may his name and memory be wiped out!).

[GOPJ]

A spiritual person must be able see evil. This man can’t see evil - - he’s not fit to be a Priest.