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My mother’s side of the family:
Both Grandparents are Lutheran but they had Nazi and Jewish parents (they were Germans)
My mother was Lutheran until I convinced her to be otherwise at the age of about 14
My father’s side of the family:
Grandma- Hippy spiritualist
Grandpa- Atheist
My father: completely Agnostic
Myself: Existentialist.
My mother tried to explain Jesus to me when I was little and my dad showed me the complexity of nature by taking me hiking all the time (when I was 6 we hiked 100 miles in one summer). I was Christian for about 5 years of my young childhood. After my dad became disabled due to a brain tumor that was improperly removed by doctors which lead to no brain damage but instead incurable chronic pain, my whole immediate family struggled with depression. For the first five years or so into my father’s chronic pain dilemma, I lost faith in a benevolent god and became Atheist. My atheism became transformed into a curiosity of other religions as a teenager. To make a long story short, I became Pagan for about two years until it developed into Existentialism.
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My pick: Barack Obama
A issue I’m concerned with
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
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