You Are Chosen if You Say You Are
IN FOCUS, 15 Dec 2025
Fritz Pointer – TRANSCEND Media Service
“The church does not usually profess to be a group of ordinary human beings. It claims Divine Sanction. It professes to talk with God and to receive directly His Commandments. Its ministers and members do not apparently have to acquire Truth by bitter experience and long intensive study. Truth is miraculously revealed to them.”
— W.E.B. Dubois, The Color Line and the Church
9 Dec 2025 – The very idea of a “Chosen People” is one of the most pernicious, dangerous and deadly ideas still in existence. It is, at the very least, naïve, deficient in worldly wisdom and informed judgement. It is, in fact, a primitive idea, and certainly not and idea that should guide foreign policy of any country. It would be foolish of me, to say that you are Chosen, and that I (an African/Indian American or a Palestinian) am Not Chosen. It is equally absurd and ridiculous for a people to say to another people that “You are Chosen, but we are Non-Chosen”. Especially, when this notion of Chosen People is, supposedly, narrated by and promulgated by a God concept, a spiritual, non-material being, in the “sacred text” of the so-called Chosen. And how do we know that this holy book, the Torah or Pentateuch (first five books of The Bible or Old Testament or Hebrew Bible) is free from error and authored by God? Well, because the book itself says so.
The religious view of the Chosen People has justified and even necessitated the subjugation and domination of the non-chosen. (In Hitler’s time it was the Jews, nowadays it is the Palestinians.) What makes individuals Chosen People is their intellectual capacity to know God and His Truths. In other words, Knowledge of a transcendental, spiritual being, makes a person fully human; so, if certain individuals (or a people: Africans, Indigenous Americans or Palestinians) lack such Knowledge, we can assume that they are not fully human. Therefore, the Chosen People can rule and govern the non-chosen, and should they reject or threaten the Chosen People’s authority, the Chosen have the right and even the obligation to kill them.
Specifically, American and Israeli Zionists (evangelicals and fundamentalists white supremacists) are God’s chosen, whereas infidels (blacks and other people of color) are not. And, because of their assumed superiority, they can claim that God has told them that they are chosen: that they are “human” and others are “animals” or not human. In this way, God and the word of God have been used to perpetuate the wicked idea of human inferiority. Frantz Fanon, the French-Martinican psychiatrist and political revolutionary brilliantly exposes how the God concept has been strategically deployed to create a whole race of people as the wretched of the earth.
God communicates with the Israeli and American Zionists but not infidels (people of color), and not surprisingly, white supremacists Israeli and American Zionists are told that they are special beings, God’s treasured possession, and the infidels are not. To put this in the words of James Baldwin “White people hold the power, which means that they are superior to blacks (intrinsically, that is: God decreed it so), and the world has innumerable ways of making this difference known and felt and feared.” So, white-supremacists American and Israeli Zionists have access to God’s Truth and can define people and the world, while people of color have a limited intellectual capacity and can only be defined.
In 1950, Aime Cesaire, the French Martinican poet, published Discourse on Colonialism that exposes the political psychology that has enabled Europeans to justify to others and themselves the brutal exploitation and colonization of nonwhite, non-European cultures. In this extended essay, Cesaire spends much of his time analyzing Hitler’s atrocities in Europe. But for Cesaire, what Hitler did in Europe from 1933 to 1945 was no aberration; it was the logical product of Europe’s philosophical worldview, which has justified colonization. A philosophy grounded in Christianity. Cesaire’s shocking view conveys how the “Christian bourgeois of the twentieth century that without his being aware of it, he has a Hitler inside him, that Hitler inhabits him, that Hitler is his demon, that if he rails against him, he is being inconsistent and that, at bottom, what he cannot forgive Hitler for is not crime in itself, the crime against man, it is not the humiliation of man as such, it is the crime against the white man, the humiliation of the white man, and the fact that he applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the “coolies” of India, and the “niggers” of Africa” (8).
In other words, Hitler applied to Jews and other Europeans the same Christian philosophy that Europeans have used against non-Europeans. Who gets to be defined as human or nonhuman depends on who controls the intellectual means of production. By manipulating the concept of the true human, Hitler reduced fellow Europeans to animals and things, and this was the logical product of Europe’s Christian philosophy. It was no aberration.
Master Race, Chosen People same idea, same outcome
In Mein Kampf Hitler articulated the Christian basis for his political vision, specifically insofar as it justified exterminating the Jews. To his mind, Christians (like American Zionists, my note) have assumed the new role of the Chosen People, God’s treasured possession. But to achieve their rightful place in the world, Hitler’s Chosen People must degrade and destroy the Jewish cancer threatening the “master race.” In the first part of Mein Kampf, Hitler mocks Jews as former possessors of the Chosen People title (as do many American Zionists do today). After discussing what he claims to be the lack of hygiene in Jewish communities, he claims: “All this could scarcely be called very attractive; but it became positively repulsive when, in addition to their physical uncleanness, you discovered the moral stains on this ‘chosen people” (57). So Hitler, as a Catholic, encourages his reader to look to the Catholic Church for guidance in grounding its religious Truths.
Like Hitler, today’s American Zionists (fundamentalists and evangelicals) are making it their duty (think Project 2025) to purify the land of all those who do not follow the true teachings of Christ. And, like the Zionists of today, in Palestine, the only way that Hitler could justify genocide to himself and others would be to demonstrate that the Jew (like the Palestinian today) threatens the spiritual life of the new chosen people (Nazis of his day and American and Israeli Zionists of today). And “by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord” (65). Master Race, Chosen People same idea, same outcome. Baldwin puts it this way: “The fact of the Third Reich alone makes obsolete forever any question of Christian superiority” (The Fire Next Time).
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Fritz Pointer is a retired professor of English and African American Studies. He is the vice president of Democratic World Federalists and has published numerous scholarly articles such as African Oral Epic Poetry: Praising the Deeds of a Mythic Hero (2013). Being the older brother of the popularly known singing group, The Pointer Sisters, he has co-authored Fairytale: the Pointer Sisters’ Family History. Pointer’s main interests include combating racism, advancing human rights, ending war, eliminating nuclear weapons, and nonviolent solutions to global problems.
Tags: Christianity, Civilization, God, Homo Barbaricus, Judaism, Politics, Race, Religion, Savages, Superstition, White Supremacy
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