My regular readers will have figured out that I’m Jewish, but what you don’t know is that I converted a few years ago. I was Catholic for a few years (around 5 or so I guess). Yesterday’s post is a perfect example of why I’m not anymore. I can figure out for myself how to live my life–thank you very much. The Catholic hierachy just has too much time on its hands to be doling out advice on driving–or the sins one is capable of while driving. As if we can’t get that for ourselves. While it might be nice if everyone was more polite while driving, I hardly think that some bulletin from the Vatican is going to do anything. It’s good for a laugh though.

I left it long ago when I saw the “liberal” priests being booted out for really tiny things–like making jokes that someone found offensive and reported to the bishop. Mostly they were minor missteps in speaking. Nothing really to bother about. Good excuse though to get rid of the pesky liberals and promoters of Vatican II. I also got sick and tired of listening to priests tell me that I should be home making babies. That’s all women are good for, you know. God forbid that one ever consider that a female might have a brain. So after an awakening to the misogyny of the Church and the realization that I didn’t believe that Jesus was God. How can a person be God anyway? Jesus never said he was. I went through a period of being nothing–not related to any particular religion. After a few life changing circumstances, I realized that I was missing something and also found out that my beliefs corresponded more with Judaism than anything else. Trust me, I read up on lots of things:  Buddhism, Pagan, Wicca, etc. None really worked for me though.