After my mom announced this, apparently, my dad became really angry and started attacking Christianity from a Jewish perspective. He's more a Jew now, though he doesn't argue about religion as much any more. So my sister and I had Hannukah and Christmas and celebrate Passover, but I was never really...I never fully connected with anything. Not even philosophically. I was just an empty void until recently.
Went to Hebrew school, but never fit in with the rich, liberal Reform Jews. Had a really awkward Bar Mitzvah with half my family Chinese Christians. It's just a joke now, the whole culture behind it. Bar Mitzvahs these days they let women have them and its lost all meaning. What did it mean to be a man when the Old Testament was written? You went out and hunted a goat to sacrifice, you were a man per contract law, and you could take a wife and keep the family going. Now they throw these really expensive kids birthday parties, plus. They give you cake, when sugar has estrogens in it. And my sister had a Bat Mitzvah, but she doesn't even want children.
In any case, I was baptized against my understanding. One day when I was really little my babysitter took me to church and had me baptized, but I didn't really know what was going on until much later. Frankly I don't mind it. No one else knows it. She was an older woman, family friend, and was my babysitter from the time I was born until I was nine. This because my dad was a lawyer and my mom was a dirty feminist career woman.
So here's some excerpts from that book I found. It's about how Christians viewed Jews in the medieval era. My dad underlined and highlighted a lot of passages.
And on and on. Those were passages my dad highlighted. He was attacking Christianity and my mom for wanting to take us to church. I don't remember them arguing though because I was too young."We may interpret it as an effort by one group to stigmatize another, socially inferior, group as being physically inferior as well, a sort of extra prop to bolster up the former's sense of superiority."
"The Jew emits a foul odor as punishment for his crime against Jesus"
"Jew was not quite human"
"Indeed, it was this belief that helped to account for the Jewish need of Christian blood, the sole effective therapeutic available to them."
I found another book of his, something like "8 Questions About Jews" where one section is all about why you shouldn't marry out. Well I agree with that section after seeing my parents' marriage. I don't have a real family; we don't share the same values. So the best I can do is to create a family.
I don't know why they married in the first place or why they stayed married. They might not considering my dad likely slept with a prostitute and my mom thinks it gave her cancer. But I'm on my dad's side for that; my mom's accusation is just crazy and she was a cold, absent parent.