Agnostic raised in a Jewish household. (Born in Israel, speak Hebrew, had a bar-miztvah, and so on.) The faith never meant much to me, but I have great respect for certain parts of religion.
Even in my own home, I've seen strangeness as time moves on. My mother was remarried in a "non-denominational" church, and her husband's family is all about Our Lord Jesus Christ. Before this, she was into Kaballah, and now my father is. I just don't even know what's going on. These people were close to furious with me when I attended a youth group with a friend of mine at his Unitarian church. Those kids (and that group) were easily the most well-adjusted I've ever known: not rabid about religion or politics, but mostly sitting and chatting, discussing ideas and often sounding like a freshman philosophy course.
In my opinion, it should be a process of understanding, equality, and improvement, not finger-pointing and three cheers for us-not-them.
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Date: 2004-11-06 06:39 pm (UTC)Even in my own home, I've seen strangeness as time moves on. My mother was remarried in a "non-denominational" church, and her husband's family is all about Our Lord Jesus Christ. Before this, she was into Kaballah, and now my father is. I just don't even know what's going on. These people were close to furious with me when I attended a youth group with a friend of mine at his Unitarian church. Those kids (and that group) were easily the most well-adjusted I've ever known: not rabid about religion or politics, but mostly sitting and chatting, discussing ideas and often sounding like a freshman philosophy course.
In my opinion, it should be a process of understanding, equality, and improvement, not finger-pointing and three cheers for us-not-them.