7/She wanted to marry him even if he didn't convert to Christianity. But for him (and his family!), religion was a dealbreaker.
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8/That horrified me. I guess I just have a very strong belief that personal relationships should trump club memberships.
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9/I asked my Baby Boomer aunt and uncle about this. They agreed with the man's decision to break up with his girlfriend!! WTF, I thought.
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10/Though I had stopped attending services years before, that day I stopped calling myself Jewish.
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11/My desire to define myself by membership in an exclusive club like that is precisely zero.
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12/And though they wouldn't put it as strongly, I think a lot of my generation feels the same way.https://www.jta.org/2013/10/01/news-opinion/united-states/pew-survey-u-s-jewish-intermarriage-rate-rises-to-58-percent …
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13/As for my aunt and uncle, shortly after that conversation their son married a Christian woman (and neither one converted). :-)
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14/I think this trend is not limited to Judaism. It's an overall thing in America. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-secular-life/201505/christianity-declining-secularism-rising …
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15/It's not just Judaism's exclusiveness that's turning people off, I think. Christianity too. Islam too.http://www.arabamericannews.com/2016/07/29/Muslim-ish-Secular-Muslims-in-America/ …
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16/Everyone talks about how young Americans care more and more about identity. But I submit that this is because we want to INTEGRATE.
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an anecdotal counterpoint: several of my Jewish friends have become much more committed to Jewish identity over the past 3-5 years.
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I think there are always people moving in both directions. I've known people like that too. But overall the trend is the opposite.
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Every day people drop any of these vestigial identities is a great day. But, you’ve likely seen how many will want to put it back on you.
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