Terrorizing Others In The Name Of God!

One idea that has a long history of sparking religious violence and brutality among homosapiens is the religious concept and psychology of "God's chosen people"!

The Old Testament is replete with stories depicting all the terrible things that "God's Chosen People" are allowed or commanded to do (by God) with God's blessing! They can commit the most horrendous acts without any guilt, because they're only carrying-out the dictates of their God and therefore these acts aren't bad because they're sanctioned by God!

The moral laws that judge these acts as bad when done by the rest of us don't apply to "God's chosen people". They can rape, pillage, commit genocide, take others land etc., without blame or guilt because their God allows them to! Because they're his pet people! (How many religious wars have been fought by people with this attitude!) The only way they can see to get along with others is to convert them to their way of thinking or kill them if they can't!

They themselves as "good" and have a blind eye for anything bad in themselves! They only see the bad in themselves when they've projected it on to others as scapegoats! They have no sympathy for those they scapegoat, only for those they identify with! They depersonalize all others as "infidels, barbarians, heretics" etc. They feel no more qualms about killing these "alien others" than they would about squashing a bug!

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