>I went to a Jewish kindergarten because my Catholic parents decided it was the best.
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>My brother went one better: he announced to all and sundry one day in Synagogue that Jesus has in fact already been.
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>All three brothers wore the kepa and knew the same words as everybody else.
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>Granted it was voluntary- but the effect on our psyche or life happiness? Apparently zero. FWIW my sister subsequently did a theology degree and regularly debates with rabbis from all over the world about the Old Testament in original form (Aramaic?)
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>I wouldn't worry about it. If you can't buy into it, cheerfully participate in quaint antique behaviors that remind us that no wo/man is an island and that every attempt to pretend away history has ended in disaster.

I think the voluntary aspect makes all the difference. Presumably, your parents talked to you about what they believed and how what you saw in school was different.

Public schools are for all kids, and when they tacitly establish one religion over others, they're telling the other kids that they're are not as important as the ones whose religion has been chosen.

Understand that I have no problem with study of religions and their customs as history or sociology, solely with a taxpayer-funded school favoring one over others.

Tamar