The Chosen People

[Jenny A]

Jews are a religion and nothing more. David Silverman, a "Jewish" atheist has a great lecture on Youtube where he goes point by point debunking that Judaism is anything other than just another BS religion.

The secular citizens of Israel;  many Jews living elsewhere; Hitler; and many historians would disagree with you there.   There's a culture and an ethnicity there to go with the religion, not to mention a language.

Silverman appears to identify what most people would call Jewish secular culture as, Ashkenazic. http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and...an-atheist

He notes that much of what is defined as Jewish culture, such as music or food, is simply Judaism-the-religion “taking credit” for a geographically specific regional culture—Ashkenazic culture primarily being simply Eastern European, for instance. The only thing world Jewry has in common is the Torah, he says, and as a religious doctrine, the Torah cannot be reconciled with atheistic values.

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-life-and...an-atheist

Yes I had to look up Ashkenazic, it is essentially Yiddish speaking Eastern European Jewish.  These are the immigrants and descendents of  immigrants from Germany, and Eastern Europe I've gone to school with (to the extent there were any Jews in Colorado) and the ones Hitler had it in for.  It's a culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews It isn't a 1st century or earlier culture, it's a modern culture continuing out of a Medieval  one.  But I don't see how they are any more dangerous than Scotsmen,  Welsh, Germans, Italians, or even the French.    They bake loverly things, but don't eat the boiled chicken.