My parents somehow insist on that we will be included in a religious community. Personally, I see no sense in it. We’re all atheists in the family, and while religion is hardly unfamiliar territory to any of us, I don’t feel comfortable entering a community in whose ideals I don’t believe. Moreover, it just doesn’t feel like the religion in Israel.
Another things that sometimes gets at me is service. Maybe i’m just lazy, but I don’t like going to service every Friaday evening just to applease to some deep need in my parents to be part of a religious community.
This evening was no exception. We made haste as I ate up some strangely shaped tofu, and jumped into the car rushing to the Congregation. Oh, well, i’ll try to enjoy it. At least i’ll have the midrash, which always contains some interesting comments about the torah.
We arrived there at 7:00, just to see that there were no cars in the parking lot. My father assumed that the we arrived at the wrong time, but comeing into the Congregation proved him wrong. There was indeed a service at that time.
We were called into the center because it was a small enough group to do so, and the service started. Somehow, I didn’t remember the music as the exact music, and Rabi Levi seemed to skip quite a lot and oversimplify issues, he also talked directly to all the small children in the audience. Small children…
I glanced into the audience again. It was probably not a coincidence that there was a little child per every adult (barring us, of course). Suddenly, it all (or most of it) came together. After the end of the service, it was indeed confirmed that this was a special service intended for small children.
Indeed, my mother looked up the times for the services, and saw a ‘Family Service’ at 7:00 before the normal service at 8:00. We came at 7:00 to a service directed at little children, and rushed ourselves unnecessarilly to the congregation. As we left, slightly annoyed, slightly amused, the real service started in a room near us.
At least my little sister enjoyed herself.
Patrick Julius said,
Mar 7, 21:38 #
Never been much for religion myself either…
I do understand the need for a feeling of community, but a community of the indoctrinated never appealed to me. I’d much rather get together a writer’s group or a research project, or even just a discussion group, than go to a religious service.
Noam Samuel said,
Mar 9, 18:26 #
Personally, I think judeo-christo-muslim religions are undervalued by most atheists, who consider it to be completely useless when in fact it contains many human truths, and overvalued by religious people, who consider every word of it to be true when, in fact, it contains many lies geared to conrtrol people (another basic human truth incorperated into religions).
I also think that the Torah itself is most definately a compilation of what was previously israelite mythology. It is probable that Nevi’im (the next bunch of books, describing the happenings of israelite in Cnaan [Israel]) is something slightly (written by many different authors, it is throught to be a semi-historic recording of what happened). I must admit that I don’t know much about Ktuvim, the Quaran or the New Testament.
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