and, again: my mother's parents were anglican, but she never went to church out of her own will. she may have identified vaguely as a deist, but i would actually categorize her as more of a laveyan satanist.

my father appears to have had a complex ethnic background that included jewish, italian, french canadian, native american and potentially african-american ancestry, but he was baptized as an infant and raised a roman catholic. his father looked pretty jewish, but had a pure laine quebecois mother, and identified as a francophone roman catholic, as well. i never saw him go to church of his own free will, either; he was vaguely deist, but i think the truth is that he just didn't think about it much. what did religion have to do with the habs winning the cup, anyways? he believed more in maurice richard than he did in jesus; his real religion was hockey.

i was not baptized as an infant. i actually remember my baptism, at the age of four. at the time, the public school system started at grade one, and the catholic school system had two years of kindergarten. so, i was baptized into the catholic church by my satanist mother as a cynical ploy to get me to go to school. and, don't be too kind about her motives: she was a brutal alcoholic and was trying to find something to do with me.

by the time i was about nine or ten, i'd decided that religion was ridiculous, and i never wavered on the point.

so, i'm not religiously or culturally jewish - my dad would have identified as italian or french. and, i'm not roman catholic in any meaningful sense, either.