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I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.

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I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.

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At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.

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In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

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I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.

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At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.

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I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.

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I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.

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I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.

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Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Writer

Born: May 28th, 1966

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