Mini rant, because I can

[thesummerqueen]

I guess my amazement at it is that unlike some members of this forum, I rarely experience religious guilt from my friends (or family, but that's mostly due to my efforts). My Christian friends typically leave me alone because I was born Jewish, which either makes me mysterious or irrelevant. My Jewish friends are either also atheist or don't pay that much attention. My mother gets on her high horse now and then, but I live 300 miles away and e-mails and phone calls can be ignored. I rarely ever go to synagogue (only when food is used as a bribe, basically, and also to obtain more comedic material). I realize much of the fervor is because they know I'm at the cut-off age, but it was a new experience to me to be told I HAVE to do something for my "Jewishness." Like grossing people out by eating gefilte fish wasn't enough.