| I am the product of a mixed marriage, as I have explained before. My mother converted, and I was raised a Conservative Jew until I was ten. I spent a couple of years without religious participation. When I was 12, my mother went back to the Catholic Church, and, to please her, I was baptized a Catholic. By the time I was 14, I considered myself a pantheist, and by the time I was 16, I considered myself an atheist, despite continued participation in parish life. When I was in college, I became a theist, and spent a couple of years trying to re-integrate myself into a Conservative synagogue, though I never got so far as to attain bar-mitvah. After college, I had a religious crisis, and spent quite awhile as a Catholic. However, that did not quite endure, and although I still believe in God, I do not doctrinally fit much of anywhere. I would be considered a religious liberal, in most contexts. I have not been in a church or synagogue for anything but a wedding or funeral or tour for more than 15 years.......... |
