Burnishing Bigotry - 3rd edition

Lucy #031: Then you go on to state that ―[God] chose one people to demonstrate his
special care, and from them to provide a Savior for the whole world.‖ … Lucy! Of course He did
no such thing … Indeed, for you or anyone else to make such an outrageous claim
requires that you completely deny the vast majority of the entirety of human history!
My Friend, if it is indeed true that God created humankind, then archaeological evidence
now conclusively shows that He did so at least 100,000 years ago (with many scientists erring on the
side of raising that number to 200,000 years) … And you would like to tell me that He waited to
announce his ―chosen people‖ until only 4000 years ago – at least 96,000 years after he
(supposedly) created Adam & Eve?!?! And are you also going to tell me that he purposefully
refused to give any sign whatsoever to the Chinese, who had already developed a sophisticated
civilization at roughly the same time Moses was wandering the desert waiting for his famed stone
tablets? And what about the ancient Egyptians, who were civilized roughly one thousand years
before that (and a full three thousand years before Christ‘s arrival)? – or the Sumerians, who were
fully capable of receiving God‘s divine commands a full two thousand years before Moses came
down from Mt. Sinai, and at least four thousand years before Mary gave birth to Jesus? Why did
God ignore these societies that He also co-created, my Friend? And if there was a valid reason for
those seemingly callous dismissals, why are they not mentioned at all in the Scriptures?
Now admittedly, these questions do not disprove the validity of Jesus Christ and
the clear brilliance of his message, and yet they do cast quite about of doubt on the claims of Jews
& Christians & Muslims that they & they alone are ―God‘s chosen people‖.
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