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Thanks. I asked because I’m always curious when someone lands on Christianity as their faith choice what their primary influence was growing up…even if it was just cultural.

As hard as I tried to accept Christianity, my Orthodox Judaism of my youth seems to have placed a wall of resistance to it.
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Of course! I would agree to an extent but there’s also a many other factors as well. However, of all of the faiths out there Christianity was my last choice (not to say I regret it).

Side question, what Jewish sect were you raised as? If it’s not too personal?
 
Not personal at all. Orthodox Judaism. We kept kosher and the whole 9yards. I’m unusual in that when I left God behind, I also left Judaism completely, too. Most Jews that become agnostic/atheist still remain culturally Jewish. I didn’t. I became fully secular.
 
Perhaps he would rather drink the queen of beverages (or king for you men), “T-E-A’.
 
I know. Just about everybody I know does. . .but I can’t. I have tried. I just cannot stand the taste or smell of coffee in any way. Or banana or watermelon. But I love both chocolate and vanilla, cinnamon, mint, etc. So I stick with regular tea and tissues (herb tea) and try to sit downwind of my nearly 91 year old mater and her cups of coffee. It took her until this year to actually drink any cup of tea other than ‘from the Chinese restaurant, I.e. oolong”, but she actually liked Constant Comment which seems to have having a comeback in our neck of the woods. I wish I could like coffee; it seems to have lots of health benefits and it would be nice if I could go into a meeting and not have to settle for, at BEST, an urn of lukewarm water and a draggy “Lipton bag’ while everybody else is drinking flavored coffees of every shape and form!
 
I actually drink tea and coffee, however i prefer my coffee strong and black.
 
Haha i actually do enjoy both tea and coffee, i think earl grey would be my favorite tea haha
 
Sorry, tried to message you back yesterday but it seems they limit then amount of posts new accounts can write.

So, growing up Orthodox Jew, I bet that was tough as a child haha. That does seem odd, but I actually know several secular jews. So how long have you been secular?
 
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, I bet that was tough as a child haha
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Not at all! I loved being Jewish. I loved all our traditions. Christians often talk about the “burden” of following the law without asking those that do how hard it is. Whatever you grow up with and do seems normal and I was no exception. Why wouldn’t people keep Kosher? It was all I ever knew!

I began losing my faith at about 18. Gods silence was the starting point eventually leading into suffering and evil and ending with secular studies of the Bible and religions. It all seemed so man made and I never ever had an “experience” of the divine or supernatural in any way shape or form. I didn’t even know atheism existed…at the time, I thought I was the only person in the world that no longer believed. I finally decided to live completely secular at about 23/24. I’m now almost 68 (next week). I’ve been at peace with religion for a long time, now. I never hated religion. I never was “mad at God”. Never had some catastrophe happen. I just couldn’t make my brain believe anymore.
 
Yeah, I had something similar happen except in reverse, the more I looked into the suffering of the World and looked into the arguments for and against a deity, i started to believe there was more to life (although I could be completely wrong, that happens occasionally… not often though 😉 ).
 
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