Heh. I have one friend here who describes herself as "culturally Jewish, practicing eclectic pagan." Pretty accurate description of her. I've long liked paganism, but mostly in a sense of "If I believed in a deity, I'd probably be a pagan."

See, I was raised kind of oddly. My parents' families are pure Catholic, but Mom's an atheist and Dad's agnostic. I wish they'd known about UU and raised me some kind of agnostic UU; I'd rather that than what I got, which was Catholic from the rest of my family and little or no word from my parents. I used to think I was Catholic, until I realized in middle school that I didn't believe any of that God stuff. Right now, I'm atheistic/agnostic, along the lines of "I believe that there is no such thing as God, but I also think it's impossible for humans to be sure of the nonexistance of a deity."

I like the community feelling of a church, but I dislike the bureaucratic feel of most organized religions. I've been considering going to a service or two in the Santa Fe UU church, just to see what it's like; I'll be hearing a lot about religion at St. John's, so I may or may not want another form of it to think about.

Sorry for the ramble. For being atheistic, I still have a lot of interest in religion.