The Enlightenment betrayed

October 28, 2025

The return of the Dark Ages of religious bigotry, superstition and unreason could not be better illustrated by the fact that supposedly intelligent people can take seriously the idea that a god, whose very existence is contested, has decided that the Jewish people are the “chosen” ones.

What is even more extraordinary is that other supposedly sentient human beings from outside that self-interested group are prepared to give a moment’s credibility to such a rationally and factually outrageous claim.

What is never mentioned when this claim to being “chosen” is made is that the Torah is filled with laws commanding justice, compassion, and moral rigour and is not a licence for unethical behaviour or exploitation.

Prophets like Amos and Isaiah fiercely condemn Israel when it fails to live up to these standards.

So the Zionists, in pursuit of their very earthly desires for a country confined only to them as the chosen, have selectively used un-contextualized extracts from a document written thousands of years ago by self-interested scribes, to justify genocide and ethnic cleansing of another people. And we are supposed to take these claims seriously?