History is made by stupid people, so do something dumb before you die.... Arrogant Worms

Daniel dennett identifies these religions as having evolved to include sophisticated ways to keep people in the belief. Makes sense to me. Critical thinking is discouraged such as in Proverbs 3:5 "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding".
Still some people really need religion to survive and thrive in life. It's a tricky problem.

Does that make ALL the foolish people his chosen ones?

Well, accurate.

Christianity does choose both the foolish and the weak.

Stupidity at its worst.

Unbelievable get around

"God" really didn't do shit

This is a way of justification of their belief in nonsense.

Very close to the "god fearing christian" idea. Which was introduced into the Christian theology, in the first place, to counter the Stoic philosophers who argued that if god was all good and fair in all things, then nobody need fear god, because you will always receive fairness and justice.

The christian fathers then introduced god fearing, because they said god may be unreasonable and/or ask you to do evil in order to test you, yet he is still good and perfect. Yep have a few drinks before you try to get your head round that.

yeah, that's just to cover their asses for their own stupidity. Makes them feel all warm and fussy inside when they do stupid things.

I have seen a church sign that said "Follow Science Be Damned." That was the same church that held a yearly Veterans day meal, "Jane Fonda not invited" and once had a "Follow Muhammad Be Damned."
Funny story - it caught on fire, quite accidentally. The guy who reported it did so at a bar nearby, after he ordered his regular beer. He told those around him that he thought about finishing the beer first. I've been in that bar - pretty conservative crowd, so you can see that church did not invoke much pity.