YES!!!!! GOD HAS ETERNAL LOVE FOR ISRAEL!!!YEHOVAH God then made the people an awesome promise, saying, "Now therefore, if ye will OBEY my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me ABOVE ALL PEOPLE." These words were actually A MARRIAGE COVENANT, and by the people's response, "All that the LORD has spoken we will do," they made their WEDDING VOW (Exodus 19:5-8).
This relationship between YEHOVAH God and the children of Israel is confirmed many times in scripture, as for example in Jeremiah 3:14, where we read the words, "Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I AM MARRIED UNTO YOU."
And the prophet Isaiah, in a chapter about the wife of YEHOVAH, plainly states, "For thy Maker is thine HUSBAND; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel" (Isaiah 54:5).
That sounds like religious fundamentalism.
It seems that Enlightenment didn't have any influence on some people who still stick to stone-age morals and stone-age fairy tales about some tribal God that presumably ordered to kill children and commit many other crimes.