#but a terrible jew by orthodox standards given that i don't keep kosher or observe traditional rules around the sabbath etc etc | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

vamptastic · 9 days ago

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the places where i think religion made me Weird are i think morally doing (consensual) fucked up shit to corpses is fine but i find the actual processes of embalming and cremation to be violating and disgusting on an instinctual level. and also i think judaica tattoos are insanely tacky if not outright disrespectful even when other jews get them. and generally seeing tattoos in jewish spaces is a weird feeling. but overall i am i think a chill guy for being considerably more religious (or idk, knowing/caring more about religion) than the average person. idc about promiscuity or gender roles or whatever. i just feel guilty every time i eat shrimp.

#just very used to the idea that tattoos are fundamentally unjewish #but like none of this is smth id say something judgmental to somebody over #it's just hangups i notice i have bc of my upbringing #it's also like... i am not particularly religious by Jewish standards #i mean jewish standards are totally all over the place- im an outstanding jew compared to holiday only jews #but a terrible jew by orthodox standards given that i don't keep kosher or observe traditional rules around the sabbath etc etc #but for christains like as far as i can tell half their rules r shit they made up that isn't in the new testament #like they don't approach religious rules in at all the same way (technically don't they just do the ten commandments?)#it seems to be more about how much time you put into religion than how observant you are bc theres not. as much to observe right?#like i think a christian teenager that goes to church every sunday and goes to dinner with old church ladies on the reg #probably they are Very Religious and also prolly sheltered #but me a jew who does that im not even a proper mensch #also being interfaith makes it weird and just not having good extended family in general #my mom is very passionate about judaism but her mom dgaf and all the other extended family is christian #so all i got is like stories about my dead greatgrandparents and all the stuff my mom picked up from them #nobody speaks yiddish or hebrew fluently. there's no objects rlly passed down bc my grandma was ashamed of her judaism. that kind of thing.#all of my jewish culture comes from synagogue and it was similar for my mom growing up too

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