The Jewish Fallacy

I am smart And God told me this is how it is (My smartness enabling me to recognize God) And so what I say (Being what God told me) Then is correct and true And, perhaps most importantly, unique, (Because God told me). And the fact He told my whole tribe at once (Through the intermediary Moses) Makes it proven to be true (Even though there is no other proof). And this is the ground, The very Holy Land itself, I stand upon. This is all well and good For forming the basis of a distinct civilization Unified and bonded on ethnic grounds, But it doesn’t do so well In the broader world of many other civilizations, And tribal bonds, Each with their own creation myths, Each equally valid For explaining what is, And how it binds the tribe together And thus apart From all the rest. It also doesn’t hold up to rigorous logic Where the postulate needs more proof Than the postulated existence Of said postulate. What it does do is provide a context For confidence and solidarity Within the tribe And the self of each member. But again, this is what all selves and tribes have To some degree or another. But when the Jews say They have a special covenant with God, And with their intellectual skill Explain it in elaborate detail Convincing at least themselves, What they are really doing is merely adding a layer Onto what simply is (In their case, so and so people In such and such place), And although this intellectual conceptual layer, Held to be The Truth, Is distinctly Jewish, The underlying reality of what is, Is universal And so the basis for whatever every other tribe Thinks about itself, its origins and its world. In others words, all religions are different In how this world and life is explained, But this world and life is the same for each of us Until we become convinced The conceptual layer our religion provides Is true. And heaven help those Who disagree… (4/8/25)