Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.

Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.

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.

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.

My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.