shabbos goy<\/a>, she made frequent use of my services, having me follow her from room to room to turn lights on and off as needed.<\/p>\nI started to get peeved with the terse way she was ordering me around and the way she kept interrupting my reading, so I comforted \u00a0myself with the thought that, according to her religion, I was technically a Jew, and thus she was committing a major sin in ordering a fellow Jew to break the Sabbath. \u00a0She never asked me if I was Jewish (despite my very very Jewish hair).<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not sure what how I should have handled the situation (offered my help but disclosed my long ago Jewish maternal grandmother? Advised her to talk to one of the goyishe chaperones? Offered to call the hotel concierge to ask for help?). \u00a0I don\u2019t think I was obligated to put our room at risk for her religious observance. \u00a0(I hadn\u2019t signed up to room with her).<\/p>\n
I took the least proactive, most resentful option, and that was wrong of me. \u00a0Rejoicing in spitefullness should have been my clue I was behaving badly, even if she didn\u2019t know I was being nasty and even if I didn\u2019t believe any real<\/em>\u00a0harm came to her as the result of my actions.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
What do you think I should<\/strong> have done?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/em>What should the atheist godfather do?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/em>What duty do atheists (or anyone outside a particular religious faith) have to protect people in that tradition from a harm that we don\u2019t believe exists?<\/em><\/p>\n
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