What are you?

[sararose]

Finally got one for Judaism on the board.

[Hulud]

Finally got one for Judaism on the board.

anyways im still waiting for someone who answered "other" to give an explanation, cause im interested

[sararose]

Weeee!

anyways im still waiting for someone who answered "other" to give an explanation, cause im interested

If I was asked this question about 5 - 6 years ago, I would have choosen "other".

I went through a short period while I was a teenager where I considered myself on the "other" side of religious beliefs - I guess I was really Agnostic, but never knew there was a word for it. I wasn't really brought up with much religion. The town where I was born, had a very small Jewish community, and the Temple was not only far for my parents to drive to, but my mother always complained that they were really nasty and disrespectful people, and at the time, my parents couldn't afford to be members anyways. She took me out of their Hebrew school when I was VERY young, and after that, never really went inside a Jewish Temple for YEARS. I was brought up getting presents for Hanukkah, and that's about it. My father isn't really religious, and my mother converted to Judaism (Conservative) for my father before they married (she was a Puerto Rican Catholic). My mother is VERY religious and spiritual, but she really keeps it to herself.

However, when I turned about 12yrs old, my parents moved, and put my brother (who was 8 years old) into Hebrew school. I refused to go, only because I really didn't know anything about religion in general, and wasn't interested.

Well, a few years went by, and I was 17 and my brother was 13 and was getting Bar Mitzvah'ed and I started attending services to prepare for his ceremony. I learned so much about my religion and culture and history. Ever since then, I've been trying to learn as much as I can, and catch up on the 17 years of Jewish religious faith I missed out on.


I'm not a religious nut, I'm a science nerd and I believe in evolution, my SO (who I've been with for 2yrs now) is Christian and I spend Christmas and go to church with him and his family all the time and have a great time , and I do question God and the after life, and death scares the shit outta me , but my new goal is to attend religious school and get Bat Mitzvah'ed. I just want to learn more about the generations of people I come from, their faith, their beliefs, and maybe find a little more faith in something on the journey there.

Edit: I know, that was a long [nogaf], but I thought I'd throw something out there for some conversation.