To Change, To Convert? Why

My Mother Was A Modern Woman With A Limited Interest In Religion. When The Sun Set And The Fast Of The Day Of Atonement Ended, She Shot From The Synagogue Like A Rocket To Dance The Charleston.

I Am Pleased Now That I Have Lived In A Gay As Well As A Religious Ghetto, Though It Hasn't Been Very Comfortable. Taken Together, Their Limitations Cancel Each Other Out And I Have Seen The World More Kindly And More Honestly.

What Would I Have Done If I'd Been Put To The Test? Would I Have Risked My Own Life For People I Hardly Knew? Probably, I Would Have Looked The Other Way At Best Or Become Another Apologist For Evil At Worst.

The Secular World Is More Spiritual Than It Thinks, Just As The Ecclesiastical World Is More Materialist Than It Cares To Acknowledge.

To Change, To Convert? Why Bother?