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I'm a writer and I'm in the works of a novel I've been thinking about. I have finished my rough draft and I just realised I didnt really put a lot of diversity between characters. All of them are white. Diffrent shades, but still white. I've accidentally did this before and got called a racist because of it. I really like my characters present appearances, but I don't want to offend anyone. Should I go back and make one African American or Hispanic? (link)
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The book you have written is Your Book. While everyone has their opinion, you are the author and no matter who or what your characters may be, that is who they happen to be. Do opinions need to rule who or why or what? Our tales are creative expressions and we need to think outside the boxes that put any walls up and hinder that creativity. We are free thinkers. Be a free thinking creator without ruminating over who might be offended or upset with your work. Be yourself.
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First off, she didn't straight up say it was phony, she just said "You're not even Jewish". She said that because in Judaism they believe that you're only Jewish if it was passed down to you through your mother and my mother was Roman Catholic where as my dad was Jewish.
Throughout my last two years of college I've been trying to get closer to my Jewish faith because I've just always considered myself Jewish. Though my mom tried to raise me Christian she always did it in a forceful way which of course made me turn away from it. I also just believe more of the basics of the Jewish faith than the Christian faith.
I've struggled with it though because unlike many Jewish children, I was never put in a Jewish education program and never had a bat mitzvah. I was never really taken to Synagogue except for maybe on a few occasions, but was frequently taken to a Jewish family center for a while when I was a child. However as I grew older all of that stopped and my dad distanced himself from the religion.
Last summer I was supposed to go on a birthright trip to reignite my faith, but it fell through last minute due to money issues so now I feel even more lost (though I hope to try again this coming summer).
I just moved recently so I wanted to get involved at a local Synagogue, but was feeling stressed about it because it seems like most synagogue members have all of the Jewish education already and are "real Jews" who went to Jewish school, had bat(or bar) mitzvah's and were raised in a Jewish family who celebrated all the holidays and prayed in Hebrew, etc.
When I was telling my best friend about my struggles with it that's when she said "You're not even Jewish". I tried my best to brush it off, but it keeps circling around in my mind.
Technically, she's right I'm not even a real Jew. Now I'm wondering if I'm just a big phony who convinced myself that I'm something I'm not and if I should just give up the act already and consider myself agnostic. I do believe in a god, but I don't believe that the bible was right about everything and technically I can't be a Jew because it wasn't passed to me through my mother. So I'm not really either am I? So does that make me agnostic then?
I'm so lost and confused. I feel like I've been lying to myself my whole life and that I'm really just pathetic for trying to cling to a religion that I'm not allowed in.
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Your religion is your decision. Have you heard about messianic Judaism? These are Jew's who came to know and believe in Christ. It is my personal opinion, but I think that you may learn a lot by researching Messianic Judaism.In time, you will learn through experience that even best friends do not truly know you, but your quest to know your God will define you. There is hope in belief. But there is faith in knowing and learning about the one and only true, living God and you are learning.
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