Is she Jewish?

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Is she Jewish?

I can't seem to find any information on this.

You must not have looked very hard.


I was raised Southern Baptist, so I'm very well acquainted with fundamentalist religion even though I lived in Detroit.

Were you an avid churchgoer?

My parents were Southern, and we went to a Southern Baptist church. When I was a small child, until I was about 8 or 9 years old, I worried if I didn't go forward and get saved every Sunday--which I couldn't do, it was absolutely too humiliating to see these adults flailing and beating their breasts and sobbing, and I thought, Oh, my God, this is so ridiculous, so embarrassing--I could never bring myself to go forward. And I'd think, Oh, my God, if I don't go next Sunday, if the end of the world comes, I'll go to hell. And tiffs is a pretty hard thing for a 7- or 8-year-old to catty all the time. [Laughs] And yet I loved the preaching. The preaching was great 'cause it was so theatrical.

I know a lot of people who grew up Baptist, and they love the singing if nothing else.

The singing, right. And then after I got older, I used to go to black churches in Detroit just for the absolute fun of it. It was so wonderful, and the music was so great, and the preaching was beyond the white Baptists. But the point I want to make is, the idea that people will say--out of the 170,000 people or however many were killed in the tsunami--they'll say, "God saved me." As if God particularly saved this person. There's a tremendous amount of narcissism in that belief, that God is speaking directly to you. I mean, it's unbelievable.

Yeah, you know the divine secrets but nobody else does, and they have to hear it from you.

All these disparate opinions and points of view that people say they're getting as direct divine guidance--I've been concerned for decades about presidents who claim to be born again. And knowing that everyone I knew in the fundamentalist church or in the evangelical Christian church--they wanted the rapture to come.

Oh, yeah. There are people handling our foreign policy who are pretty much using the Book of Revelation as a guideline.

We don't have to save the environment, because we're not going to be around.


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Why on earth would she deny being something that 1) she is not, 2) there's no reason for anyone to think she is, and 3) is not a problem? Why would she deny being something that not offensive and is not on her or anyone else's radar (except, apparently, yours)?

I mean, I am wearing a black shirt today, but I'm not going to issue a press release making sure that everyone knows my shirt is not orange--on the bizarrely remote chance that someone might assume that my shirt is orange despite my prior definitive statement that it's black. Because (and see if you can follow me here) my shirt's not orange, and even if it were, nobody would care.

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