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I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.
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I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.
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My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.
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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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The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.
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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 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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Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.
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I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.
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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 times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.
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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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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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Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.
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