Just because I like this kind of email:

Hi Jonah- From the point of view of Christians, the Jews are indeed the
chosen people, and Gnostics hate that because they hate history.
History is free, meaning that it is the arena of human freedom and
responsibility. Creation is a free act of God, and being created in the
image of God is being created in freedom, and one has to freely accept
that freedom & the responsibility that goes with it. Gnostics, like
pagans generally, believe that freedom is irrational and history is
meaningless. They can’t stand the idea that God is free, that he has
freely chosen the Jews, that through them he has taught us that human
responsibilty matters- in fact, that everything matters.
Gnostics (and a great modern example is Yale University’s Harold Bloom-
Omens of the Millenium) cannot accept that the evil in the world comes
from free human actions under the judgment of God. Their attitude is:
It’s not my fault- it’s the Demi-urge’s fault, it’s the government’s
fault, it’s that people are not enlightened, etc. So they seek one of
two solutions: either they escape from history through various mystical
practices, or they attempt to stifle freedom by the imposition of some
kind of totalitarianism.