In other words, what caused you to liberate yourself from the shackles of religion?
Here's mine(although you can probably piece it together from my other posts): Born into a lower-class, African-American, non-practicing Christian family. Mother went insane, converted to Judaism soon after(put two and two together:).
Dragged to services every saturday, no say in the matter. Crappy Hanukkah presents:)
Mercilessly mocked by my peers because of my "faith".
Eventually REALIZED my mother was insane, but said nothing.
In other words, my spiritual life thus far has been a lie. Coming to a Jewish college, I finally "got" how I just didn't belong, and how this wasn't for me--religion, I mean. I'd been forced to say I believed in something, just because I'd been living with a crazy person for 10 years.
2006-07-15
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