For what has to be the millionth time: “Jews are the chosen people” does not mean what Christians and culturally Christian atheists think it means.
xtians (and generally non-Jews) think it means “chosen for more ice cream”
In actual Jewish theology, it means “chosen to do the dishes”
someone correct me if i'm wrong because i might be misremembering this but isn't there a mishnah or something that talks about how we are the chosen people because God went to all the other nations first and they refused/didn't pass the test?
The mishnah, as I heard it, was that Hashem went to all the nations of the earth, one by one, asking them to be the chosen people. Each nation asked what that would entail, and Hashem started listing the commandments, only to inevitably mention something that the nation was not willing to do/give up, so they all refused. Finally, Hashem came to Israel, and asked if we wanted to be the chosen people, and without asking any follow up questions (for what had to be the first, last, and only time in all of Jewish history) we said "OK!"
Yes because he was gonna drop the mountain on our heads if we said anything BUT yes
