They were not particularly religious.
That, that didn't talk about the soul or
maybe talked about it in this way or that way.
And, and afterlife.
Is anybody in, in the classroom who wants to come up and, and
talk about what they were I guess not told to believe?
>> Growing up, it was kind of like, hard religious-wise.
My grandparents are both Methodist ministers, but
my grandfather used to be a priest.
And then my mother was raised Catholic.
So, she put me in CCD and everything, put me through Catholic school,
my dad's like a die hard Atheist, but my grandparents are still Methodist,
which like, to me, like, Methodism and Catholicism are two totally, well, they're
both like Christian, but they're like two totally different concepts growing up.
So, like I had all these people telling me like what different religions were.
And finally, my parents like sat me down.
And they were like, you know, don't believe into this.
It's like one giant scam.
People are trying to tell you what to do.
They're trying to tell you how to live your life.
And it kind of made me, I guess, resent my family.
Like my grandparents being ministers, you know, they're sitting me, like sitting
down, they did the whole exorcism thing and everything like that my whole life.
And they're telling me, you know, this is how you have to be Ashley and
I sat down after my parents told me not to believe them and
I kind of realized like, hey, these people are giving me this faith.
They're telling me that, if I do good things and I listen to them, if I don't
eat cookies after dinner, before my dinner that I'm going to go to hell.
Like, these are what my grandparents telling me.
They're using the title of ministers, you know?
So like my parents just told me, like don't believe anything.
Just live this life, treat people the way that you want to be treated because this
is the only life that matters.
The people now, not the future.
Kind of like the reading that we had, where like the the tribes,
the, the hunting and gathering tribes.
>> Yeah.
>> It was >> I want to talk about that.
>> Yeah it's kind of like my parents are like that.
Live now and don't think about it.
>> Yes!
Oh wow you're wonderful thank you.
>> [LAUGH] >> Next.
>> Okay well I was raised in kind of a mixed household.
My, I'm Jewish on my mom's side, I'm Muslim on my dad's side but
neither one of them practice anything.
So I kind of grew up in a house where everyone just kind,
you can draw your own conclusions about what you believe.
And, so I believe, I don't necessarily believe in religion.
But I do believe that each person has a soul and that each,
like, individual person has a soul that moves on to somewhere after we die,
and it comes back to this Earth in another way in our next life.
And we have past lives and all of that, but I think it's kind of impossible for
people to know for sure what happens in the next life, or after we die.
So, we kind of, I don't know, it's kind of an air of mystery
when you think about it and that's what I've always grown up believing.
>> Did you, did you go to a, a public school?
>> Mm-hm.
>> Did, did your, your peers ask you who you were?
>> What do you mean who I am?