Faith Education (was -RE: [HPFGU-OTChatter] the Eight Days of Chanukah)

[IggyMcSnurd]

>  - Boggles
>*chuckle* Being myself a Pagan with a Jewish spouse, forgive me for 
>pointing out that (if I have your religion right) you are, like me, 
>yevonim as well as goyim.  (I was very, very careful not to touch the 
>Torah scrolls when they showed them at my cousin-in-law's Bar 
>Mitzvah.)
>

Iggy here:

Well, I don't really know what "yevonim" means... although I am familiar
with "goyim."

You got lucky... at least the Jews tend to be a lot more accepting of
other people's beliefs.  *grin* I'm a Neo-Pagan married to a Southern
Baptist.  (My wife and I don't discuss faith all that much... it ends up
starting too many arguments.)  

And would you believe that I always figured that, if I ever got married,
I would probably marry someone Jewish?  Mostly it's because I tended to
get along better with my Jewish friends and GF than I did with every
other relationship except my wife... That and because I just kinda like
the spirit with which the Jews live their lives and practice their faith
a lot of the time.  Of course, being half Italian, I can identify with
some of it.  In  the Mediterranean cultures for the most part...
(including the Jews), as an example, you work hard, you live your life
in your faith, and you celebrate life to it's fullest when it's time to
play.

(At least, that's what I've always seen... *grin*


Iggy McSnurd