So, this god, Yahweh or Jehovah, revealed himself, not to the civilised Egyptians, Chinese or Indian cultures, but a bunch of nomadic goat herding barbarians. He then urged them to kill, plunder and rape all the people that stood in their way, in effect inventing genocide. He then gave them a land from which they were periodically expelled, taken captive numerous times and eventually almost destroyed by the Romans. After over two thousand years of travelling and being persecuted, he then led them back home to israel, the only country in the Middle East with no oil. And these were his Chosen People!