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no_hypocrisy

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26. Oh, there's more. I "came out" to my mother.

Reply to NNadir (Reply #24)

Sun Oct 5, 2025, 05:51 PM

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She was unimpressed and told me not only was she an atheist, but her mother and grandparents were atheists, and that made me fourth generation. She was mad at my brother at the wedding for having ANY religion.

And one more thing: I literally walked away from Judaism when I walked out of Yom Kippur services in 1984. Yep, the "High Holy Day"/Day of Atonement. I wasn't sorry. I didn't sin. And why was I intoning prayers? Nobody was listening.

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