... known as theothanatology or the God is dead movement. The majority of people that believe the covenant is dead are those that never believed in God in the first place, and as they never did, and probably never will, it won't affect them at all. Most Jews however, still believe that God is alive and well, and was always there. The view they choose to take is that they were being punished yet, almost every Jew that believes this has a different take on why they were being punished in the first place. Some Rabbis believe that the Zionists were the problem. As Zionists are people that believe in getting the chosen land themselves, instead of when God chooses, rabbis believe that they made God angry, so he punished them, in a way that would really hit home about their sins. Zionists however, believe that it was a collective punishment ...

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