I guess this is the time I let out my dirty little secret: My mom was Roman Catholic, but I was raised in my dad's religion of Judaism. Now, I know someone is going to ask, "But Chaz, how come you weren't raised as a Roman Catholic then?" I get asked this all the time. Some people even tell me that I need to convert to Judaism, but I'm not going to convert to my own religion after I've had a Bar Mitzvah and all that other Jewish upbringing.
I guess the thing is that after spending a summer in a pick-up truck with a Roman Catholic, and a Muslim, I've had quite a few discussions on religion. After all of this, I guess I've come to realize that it's not about what we can't understand about each other, but what we can. I mean, trying to understand what someone believes or why they believe in it is like trying to read their mind and we can't do that... yet. However, our actions that result from our beliefs have similar morals, such as putting education before everything. I could go on about this.
Anywho, I think what my mom was getting at was that it wasn't really too important what religion I was raised in, but that I was raised in a religion. I hear people say all the time that "it's all the same g-d," but when it really comes down to it, the key to understanding each other is that we all raise our kids the same way. Well, there's probably more to it than that, but it's a start I guess.
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Date: 2008-03-17 03:21 am (UTC)I guess the thing is that after spending a summer in a pick-up truck with a Roman Catholic, and a Muslim, I've had quite a few discussions on religion. After all of this, I guess I've come to realize that it's not about what we can't understand about each other, but what we can. I mean, trying to understand what someone believes or why they believe in it is like trying to read their mind and we can't do that... yet. However, our actions that result from our beliefs have similar morals, such as putting education before everything. I could go on about this.
Anywho, I think what my mom was getting at was that it wasn't really too important what religion I was raised in, but that I was raised in a religion. I hear people say all the time that "it's all the same g-d," but when it really comes down to it, the key to understanding each other is that we all raise our kids the same way. Well, there's probably more to it than that, but it's a start I guess.