Cooky
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Well those words still appear in the Roman Canon (Eucharist Prayer 1): "......a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a people set apart", if I remember correctly. However it is not quite clear who the people in question are: I like to think it embraces at least other Christians beside Catholics. Also it is in the context of the institution of the mass, so I don't think one can draw negative conclusions about the rest of the human race from it. It is I think an echo of the chosen people concept in the OT.
I hear you. Some view it coldly though.
I'm ready to move beyond that small "t" tradition, in which some view it that we are such through our mere 'membership'... In fact, I don't recall the Church ever making that specific, paradigmatic claim. I think there's still room to move forward in interpreting this 1 Peter 2:9. Even possibly extending it to non-Abrahamics without books.
...Perhaps it's only meant to remind us who we are *intended* to be, through properly working together with the Holy Spirit -the light of the world.
But just mere "membership" might not qualify us as such.
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