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Just to satisfy you on that score, I am of mixed descent, predominantly Latvian Jewish, but also a quarter Italian and a quarter English. I spent the first ten years of my life as a Conservative Jew. My parents were divorced, and after a couple of years, my mother went back to the Catholic Church. I was baptized when I was 12, and continued to practice throughout my teen years, even though I was an atheist most of the time, and doing it just to please my mother. In adulthood, I have spent time as a Jew and a Catholic, but could not decide the specifics of my beliefs sufficiently, and have been without a "church" for a dozen years, although I am a theist. Whether or not "tradition" would be more apt, I certainly would not mean it more parochially<g>.... |
