I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.

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.

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.

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

I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

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.