Re: [Marxism] Stan Goff gets religion

[Aaron Aarons <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:28 AM -0400 9/17/08, Louis Proyect wrote:
>I guess there's one thing I can thank Judaism for and that's inoculating me 
>completely against devotion to some fucking deity.

Same here! I became an atheist at the age of 10, after a year of driving my 
mother crazy by trying to really follow the rules of my family's nominal 
orthodox Judiasm. (My uncle, the main adult male around since my father was 
usually away, was rigidly orthodox. Perhaps not coincidentally, he was also the 
wealthiest member of the family. He was also nearly totally blind, and I spent 
many hours of my childhood reading stock prices to him.)

It took another 5+ years for me to become anti-Israel. That followed on my 
reading an article in the Militant on the Suez invasion.

 - Aaron

P.S. I became a vegetarian before becoming an atheist, and the former may have 
partly determined the latter. I went through with the bar mitzvah to avoid war 
with my family, but I got the concession from them that the reception would be 
in a vegetarian/dairy restaurant. >:-}

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