| I am of mixed descent. My father's family was of Latvian Jewish origins. My mother was of English and Italian descent, and raised a Roman Catholic. She converted to Judaism after my parents married. I spent my childhood, until age ten, as a Conservative Jew, and after my mother decided to renounce her conversion and go back to the Catholic Church, I was baptized a Catholic (age 12), to please her. I spent my teen years participating in a local parish, although without real belief. In adulthood, I spent some time as a Jew again, then, with conviction, as a Catholic, but have been an unaffiliated theist for many years now, not knowing precisely what doctrines to embrace. My wife is wholly gentile, and was raised a Presbyterian. She is comfortable enough with our lack of a denomination, and we have raised our son to have faith in God, but without any strong dogmatic framework. Since it is not a strictly religious matter, we simply observe common customs, which means that we have a tree...... |
