Welcome and what this blog is about

I decided to write this blog after reading a number of blogs written by people who were leaving, or had left, the religion in which they were raised. My story comes with a little twist, in that much of it is retrospective. I grew up in a Modern Orthodox Jewish household and community, but stopped believing around the time I went to college - more than a decade ago. In college (which, for me, pre-dated the rise of blogs as a social phenomenon), I turned for support to a small number of friends - raised both Jewish and Christian - who were also contending with their own loss of belief and its ramifications on relationships, life plans, etc. And others in similar situations turned to me for support.

As the years have gone on, leaving religion has become less and less a part of my day-to-day life and interactions. But, I think the story is worth telling - both for me and, I hope, for others who are trying to figure out how to build a life different from the one they were raised in. I also hope that, in the temporal distance from some of these events, I can provide a longer-term perspective on how some of the challenges can unfold, and be resolved.

And (since Passover has recently ended), the more one retells the story of the exodus from religion, the more (s)he is to be praised.