I know this is somewhat simplistic but why have some many people throughout the ages picked the Jews . Different.kept to themselves or just a scapegoat and easy
i think that is because they chose themselves as the chosen people in gods eyes when they wrote the bible.
Why would they choose someone else as god's chosen? Anyone who writes something like that would do so. All the people back then fought for a god. It was like their national flag. The Jews would go to battle with someone and their god would be put up against the other people's god/gods. If they won, it was because their god is the strongest or the only god. If they lost, it was because they were being punished. They wouldn't say they lost because their enemy's god/gods were stronger or theirs didn't exist.
i never said they wouldn't.
my statement implied that it has caused them so much grief.
jealousy.
Now it does because a lot of other people supposedly worship the same god. The largest monotheistic religions (Christianity, Islam and Judaism) all claim to be related to the god of Abraham. Back when it was normal to be the chosen people of your local deity, it probably did not make people that jealous. The other nations had their own gods that they thought were the one true god or more powerful than the god of Israel (or Abraham). It wasn't that uncommon back then to create a religion and make your local people the favorites of god.
If you live your life as to not make others jealous, you won't be striving to succeed really imo. People get jealous over bullshit. The god of Abraham is bullshit. I guess it is the fault of the rest of the world for getting jealous for not being chosen by bullshit. The "god's chosen" attitude of Jewish people is a different story, but it happens to a lot of religious people who think they are righteous for one reason or another. They think that they deserve to have the world handed to them on a silver platter, because god has blessed them for one reason or another. That attitude does offend and irritate people.