ID as a Cultural Phenomenon (Humans)

by David Turell , Sunday, September 20, 2009, 17:27 (5542 days ago) @ xeno6696


> Did you have a traditional Jewish upbringing? -
I was raised in a Reform Jewish family, very secular. I did have a Bar Mitzvah mainly because I was the first-born male on both sides. I quit Sunday school when the Bar M. was accomplished by rote memory, and still recognize only a few Hebrew letters. By culture, coming from New York, I am certainly Jewish, and look at myself as American first, and Jewish second. 
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> I've also noted that Intelligent Design has practically NO traction in Europe... and not in China, Japan, India;-The reason is that serious monotheism is on its deathbed in Europe, and the Eastern religions don't insist upon a Godhead. I live in a very fundamentalist part of Texas. I wear a Mesada belt buckle on my work belt. When I am asked about it and explain, I've had people all excited that they are in the presense of a 'chosen one'. )