Be a good person
Eva Tucker explains the background to a new Kindlers booklet, written with Stephanie Ramamurthy, on Quakers and interfaith relations
My mother was German Jewish, my father German atheist. They divorced when I was four, for personal not political reasons, and I was brought up by my liberal Jewish grandparents. I enjoyed going to synagogue with them on feast days but on the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, my father would look after me and tell me about Charles Darwin and the monkeys. He said that when I grew up I could choose whether or not to believe in God. That was a shock to the system – as far as I was concerned, God looked like my grandpa and indubitably existed.
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