Also, I am shocked that no one made admiring comments about that beautiful blue Smith-Corona. It took cartridges! It weighed a ton!

there’s a reason she quoted the liberal rabbi further down the piece. if the liberal rabbi were writing an article about yoga, he would have quoted the conservative rabbi far down the piece. or you know what, he wouldn’t have WRITTEN the piece.

the reason i want to bitchslap under-informed jewish writers who write manifestos about how we have to reinvent judaism! here is my vision! because judaism does not smell what i, the rock, am cooking! is because judaism almost always has exactly what they say it lacks: diversity, a meditative tradition, social action, whatever. even the battles about “judaism is too intellectual! it’s not spiritual enough!” have been going on for centuries. there is nothing new under the sun.

the upshot: i won’t try to save your soul. but i WILL keep saying that it’s FINE to have no religion, not fine to tar all religion with the “this is why i don’t have religion” brush. because, again, there is a whole lotta different tar and a whole lotta brushes, and i have officially lost control of this metaphor.

Like you, it took me a while to fully accept that I just don’t believe. I went the “agnostic” route for a while, but determined that it was really just a cop out. I knew I didn’t believe, but couldn’t bring myself to say it. That’s no longer an issue.

If I believe in anything, it’s probably Karma (or something like it). Try to do the right thing and, usually, people will respond. Act like an ass and, well, you know.

As for those folks who don’t understand our heathen ways – I don’t sweat them. I’m perfectly happy to let them believe what they want (or need) to believe so long as they don’t try to push their beliefs on me in some misguided attempt to save my soul. We don’t have to agree on matters of God (or the lack thereof), just so long as we agree that we’ll disagree.