Yeah, my parents are atheists obviously because of the mixed marriage, but I was — my father was very proud of racially being Jewish, as am I, of the Jewish heritage and culturally. ((Anthropologically Correct, Beneath Contempt, Bertrand Russell, Culture Of The City)) And my mother, similarly, that she was a standard sort of Protestant, was never a churchgoer. They would never have married each other had they been religious. But yeah, so I grew up with a certain irreverence for accepting dogma and a certain irreverence for being part of one group or another group and therefore, with a mentality or a tendency to want to be individual. ((Great Uncle Floyd, Once I Had A Pig))