So on the external view, here is what my religious life looks like...

Raised by not very conservative, yet practicing, Seventh-day Adventist parents

Baptized into the SDA church at a young age

Attended SDA Highschool and College

Missionary for 1 year in Korea with SDA Language Institute

Worked at Trinity Broadcasting Network for 2 year...influenced somewhat by that perspective

Currently teaching at a Jewish Pre-School...enjoying the rituals of Shabbat but haven't studied much Jewish thought

Still attending SDA Church...and teaching from time to time in a Kindergarten Sabbath School, after being the main leader for a couple of years

and now studying Buddhism...

Makes sense doesn't it? No? I don't entirely understand it either. But as I said that was just an external overview of my religious life. It's a little harder to mine the real reasons for my beliefs, or lack there of...

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