One of the most serious symptoms of this “Chosen Syndrome” is the mistaken belief that God has especially chosen one. This problem becomes most serious and dangerous when a group or nation, sharing a common heritage, believes that it is the chosen of God. It is dangerous because such a belief can easily justify the conquest of other people’s lands, property, and way of life. The God of such a chosen people does not represent a universal truth, but is a twisted manifestation of the collective ego of a group or nation. Unfortunately, most of the gods that humanity worships today have had their start in such a fashion, choosing one people over another and ensuring the success of the chosen at the suffering and expense of the other. Our gods are gods of superiority, these lines are copied from Ilchi Lee’s book.
From an anthropological point of view, the Chosen Syndrome would be considered a natural phenomenon. Since our gods are originally all nationalistic or ethnocentric gods, whom would they single out to be special other than the people whose collective ego the gods represent in the first place? Who would your ego choose as special other than yourself? Just as naturally, there is nothing terribly wrong about a group or a nation declaring itself special. However, one thing that we have to realize is that this is a self-declaration of specialness and not an objective designation by the universal and everlasting truth of the cosmos. The cosmos has not declared one group superior to another.
As I wrote before, a god is an amalgam of good social values of a specific group or people. Therefore, God is a set of information used by this group to determine the desirability of a certain action or idea in a particular place and time. Since God is, by definition, a representation of a specific group, it cannot become the central standard of value that can unify Earth. Our information and distribution infrastructure is at a point in technological sophistication where it can unify the world under one system.