{"id":3737,"date":"2007-02-21T11:38:55","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T15:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=3737"},"modified":"2007-02-21T11:38:55","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T15:38:55","slug":"chosen-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2007\/02\/chosen-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Chosen People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchhopping.com\/gods-chosen-people\/\">this<\/a> was interesting.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Thoughts:<\/p>\n<p>(1) I can&#8217;t vouch for his data, of course, but I sense that the proposition that Jews are disproportionately represented in the corridors of money and power is sustainable.  The presentation of the data gave me a little bit of an ick because normally that kind of evidence is marshaled by someone out to show how evil Jews are.<\/p>\n<p>(2) I couldn&#8217;t help thinking of two recent T &#038; S posts as I read it:  Margaret&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=3716\">reflections<\/a> on the lack of LDS artists and Frank&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=1731\">comments<\/a> on statistics in the LDS Church.<\/p>\n<p>(3) Does the disproportionate prominence of Jews reflect historical accident or the hand of God?  If the latter, (how) should that inform our thinking about the concept of being a chosen people?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this was interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}