by Basil Benson » Sun Mar 20, 2016 7:41 pm
"It wasn't the religion that didn't want me." He explained. " I didn't want it anymore.
It's... There's so many things you can't do when you're Jewish. In my case, the Temple would take it as far as to dictate I have to marry a woman of ethnic Jewish descent as well, otherwise I'd be defying Halakha, Jewish law."
Basil sighed. " When the condition set in, I began to realize between it and my religion, I wasn't capable of conducting what one would think of as a healthy mindset. One part of me put restrictions on me that I couldn't help but adhere to, but the other I could choose whether or not to keep those restrictions. I may have been 'born Jewish' as far as the Temple is concerned, but I didn't have to stay that way if I didn't want to. Loads of young men born Jewish aren't anymore, because the moment we attach ourselves to gentile women the Temple sees us as betrayers who didn't uphold their duty, and therefore no longer part of the community. "