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My daily bread
Raised to worship the New York Times on Sundays, I found myself going to church and praying instead. I thought a lot about God and flesh and blood -- and didn't tell my friends I was becoming a religious freak.
By Sara Miles [2007-02-17]

  • She'll grow out of it

    I wasted 3 years of my life trying to convert to Orthodox Judaism (my father is Jewish but my mother isn't, so according to Jewish law I'm not technically Jewish) and eventually realized that although pretending to believe in God was a good temporary fix for my deeper psychological problems, eventually the ridiculous nature of what you're doing overwhelms you and you reach a point of total embarrassment. At this point, you admit the inevitable truth--God is an overgrown fairytale, and we are alone on a ball spinning through space without rhyme or meaning. I hope that when the author reaches this point, it isn't as painful and embarrassing as it was for me.

    -- lapsang souchong
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    Friday, February 16, 2007 08:29 PM
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