“I am going to be a Rabbi, and I don’t believe in G-d. I believe in Judaism, in our shared history, culture, and experience, but I don’t believe in a creator, in sins and repercussions. I believe that G-d is what binds people together, positive energy, inner morality and goodness. I want to be a Rabbi to connect the community together in a positive way, but I feel like a hypocrite for being a religious leader when I don’t believe in G-d.

I am a logical and scientific person; my father is a scientist, and I’ve grown up enthralled with the magic of nature and natural laws. I do not believe that a higher power created the universe, and I do not believe that there is someone sitting up in Heaven watching everything we do. I don’t believe that we are judged by anyone other than ourselves and those around us.

However, I do believe that what binds people together is an overarching sense of morality, despite the minor differences from person to person. The energy, or ’soul’ of people, is what I believe in.

I am going to be a Rabbi. I realized as I was filling out the application for seminary that I don’t believe in G-d. I wish it were easier for me to blindly have faith; but I cannot rationally believe that, if there was a creator of the universe, he would give a shit if I ate a cheeseburger or a lobster. Why would the Almighty care if he were worshipped in the right way, at the right time, and by the right people, if He was the pinnacle of all life?

I am going to be a Rabbi for the community, traditions, culture, and history. If the school knew that I didn’t believe in G-d, they would expel me from the program.”

Hester, 20/F, Northeast, Jewish

PROFILE:

I have mixed feelings on my religion/spiritual path; there is much I have yet to reconcile.
Services: monthly
Congregation: Yes, I am a youth director at a synagouge
Heaven/Hell/Reincarnation: no/no/no
Pray: Often…but my praying is more like coming to terms with what is important to me rather that speaking to something else.
One true belief: no
Plan: no

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