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Ereka Vetrini and 4 other women talk about their personal experience with religion and faith.

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Host: All right! Big topics of conversation. Politics, okay, we won't go there. But religion. I want to know do you guys consider yourselves spiritual or religious. Susie! Susan De Angelis: I don't really think about it that much. I mean, I like to think that I am spiritual, but do I have -- and I am Catholic, I have my daughter baptized, I plan on communion, but I don't go to church every Sunday, and I don't really known too many of my friends that are really attached to their faith. Host: How about you Lucy? Lucy LePera: I am definitely religious, I am also Catholic. My parents never really pushed me except to get all the sacraments done, but other than that, they were like, okay, go if you want to. As an adult I decided I wanted to, and I think it's primarily because I started a family, and I wanted to introduce that to my child. I think that during hard times, when you have no control over anything and your life is so wonderful to have that something that you have a complete faith in and that you can look to and believe in. So I don't go to church every week, but I definitely pray everyday. Host: Oh, that's -- see I was going to ask you what do you to connect? And you said I pray. Lucy LePera: I pray everyday. Host: I like that. Jackie! Jackie Stelling: I don't pray everyday. I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. My mom is Jewish, but my dad was Catholic. So definitely has strong religious upbringing from my mother's side and actually my father was very strongly Catholic, which was actually quite a good thing, because one of the problems that I had with religion was the intolerance of one religion to another. Some of my brothers and sisters are Catholic and today I am Jewish, and I just didn't understand how could there be, they say intolerance were all the same. Lucy LePera: Oh, label? Jackie Stelling: Exactly. But I think just a lot of that intolerance really kind of put me off of religion, so that when I got on my own, I really didn't seek it at all, and didn't fell very connected to it. I do feel spiritual, I do believe in higher power, but the thing that I am grappling with right now is I do have a child, and I want her -- I am perfectly fine if she decides not to have religion later on, but how can she make that decision unless she is not introduced to it. So I just kind of try to figure out a way, how can I find something where she can learn about a lot of different religions, and she can have some bases, and then make her own decisions later. So I am stay tuned right now. Host: It's really funny and it's contradicting, there are places that make it a little bit easier to kind of have, we have to choose before we even know what our options are, it seems as though, but I am -- how about you Victoria? Victoria Pericon: I think family has made it, so that I got the children baptized and it was more like that, I am not very religious, but I have no problem with them to finding, may be changing their religion, because I am Anglican Episcopalian, so may be later on they will want to convert to something else, for reasons like marriage or something like that, fine. But I think that we only went to church on holidays, I remember when I was growing up, or Sunday Schools sometime. So it really wasn't like always, which my mother is going to be so upset. Host: Now the question is, I am Catholic; I married a Presbyterian, so it's kind of the same stuff. But if you didn't, would you marry somebody who was Jewish or Hindu or Buddhist, or would you be okay with that? Susan De Angelis: Absolutely. If there is a connection, if you do connect with that person, I don't think. I see it a lot. Host: But what if the other person was strictly that religious, not as Lucy or as you are? Susan De Angelis: And what if I had to convert to that? Host: Yeah. Or just a deal on a daily basis? Susan De Angelis: Deal would be okay. If I had to actually, if I had friends and had to convert to Judaism, and it's a big, massive process. I don't know if I can do that, but I guess, if it is there, if the connection is there, then you would tend to do anything for the person that you really love. Host: Jackie? Jackie Stelling: Well, my fiancé is Christian, but I think for me it's more because I am not very religious, I don't have a problem if the other person is a different religion, but if they wanted to somehow impose that on me or on my family, that would be the problem. I think we got to live together as long as we put both sort of --- Lucy LePera: Respect -- Jackie Stelling: Exactly. Host: Thank you ladies. We can go on and on forever on this topic, but thank you for sharing and we will see you for another drill.