The information below is from the website:
http://www.jacksonsnyder.com/arc/2005/odd.htm
It is well worth reading in full because it provides the tidiest narrative of the theological mytho/storyline that monotheists would have us believe and it is EXACTLY THIS STORYLINE that I personally object to as being a fiction. You are free to believe the story if you choose, I do not. I am not here to malign any group or persons. I am just saying that I personally do not believe in this narrative of our existence here on the planet earth....
Part 1 of 4:
"How odd of God to choose the Jews"
That famous couplet was written by British journalist William Norman Ewer (1885-1976). Yet, in the beginning, “God” didn’t exactly choose “the Jews” at all. The word “Jew” is a contraction of “Yahudim,” which means, “those of Yahweh.” The very name of this religious group implies that if there was any choosing to have been done, the Jews chose first and named themselves after Yahweh prior to a time when he might’ve chosen them.
Editor's Note: Read the rest (if you care) at the link above.
