Abstract
I was born into a fairly typical American Jewish family, one that valued social justice and tradition over religion. Nonetheless, I regularly went to synagogue and Hebrew School and in my own way believed in the importance of God and religion. However, by the time of my Bar Mitzvah, I already had serious misgivings about Judaism and the teachings of the Torah. These misgivings arose, in part, out of my careful reading of the Torah, my burgeoning interest in science, and my love of professional wrestling. Why did the Torah claim to be able to cure leprosy by sprinkling a person 7 times with a live dove dipped into the blood of a freshly slain dove? Why did it refer to dolphins as fishes when they were clearly mammals? And, perhaps most importantly, when would my prayers to grow to the size of Andre the Giant be answered?
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