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chosen people
(redirected from Religious exclusivism)

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chosen people
pl n
any of various peoples believing themselves to be chosen by God, esp the Jews
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Noun1.chosen people - any people believing themselves to be chosen by God
people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"
Hebrews, Israelites - the ethnic group claiming descent from Abraham and Isaac (especially from Isaac's son Jacob); the nation whom God chose to receive his revelation and with whom God chose to make a covenant (Exodus 19)


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This is the least our resistance to religious exclusivism, xenophobia, and tribalistic world view should lead to.
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