Regular readers of this blog know that my maternal grandmother was Jewish (which means that I am racially Jewish, just) and may know that my grandparents moved to Glasgow at the start of World War 2 to be further from Hitler's reach because even though she had 'married out' her entire family would have been on his hit-list for extermination. My grandparents, via a convoluted route no doubt, spent most of their lives as active Christian Scientists (often defined as the classic misnomer being neither orthodoxly Christian nor scientific; but who am I to judge?) and were for many years caretakers at their local church in Glasgow. Yesterday I tracked it down, only to discover that it is now a Hindu centre and their former caretaker's flat a suite of offices. It all seemed quite curious and somehow quite fitting given their own history.
So if you ever wondered why I am quite the heretic I am, maybe it is simply in my genes...?!