This is quite jumbled up in my head atm and I apologise if I upset anyone with this post.

I'm Jewish but I don't know if I believe in god. I'm Jewish because my parents are and Jews are a race of people (as in, you can't just "decide" to become Jewish without converting). I struggle with any religion really, I struggle with there being one god and him making people live by certain rules which I personally find irrelavent (sp) to what I think faith should be about. For example - circumcision, not eating pig etc (again please don't think i'm belittling these things if you believe them, I would love to have that kind of faith).

But...I am proud of being a Jew and what they, as a race of people, have been through and achieved and I want my children to feel that too...but when they ask me about the religious side of things I don't know what to tell them.

I know that the things I am mostly proud of, the history is all part of the religion and I feel like I don't have the right be proud because I don't have that faith (does that make sense?). I mean, around 6million Jews were killed during WW2 - a lot of them because they refused to deny there beliefs and here's me saying 'i'm proud to be Jewish but I don't believe in god"

Is any of what i'm saying making sense? I'm just not sure how to pass on my childrens heritage to them without being a hypocrite...

Thanks for listening to my second rambly post of the evening