Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection or casting out demons from an epileptic.
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Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit.
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During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
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For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be.
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For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.
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For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
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I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.
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I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.
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I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.
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I found that when I did something for the sake of heaven, heaven happened. These things changed my life. I owe them to my encounter with Christianity.
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I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.
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I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.
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I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
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I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.
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I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.
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I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.
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It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism.
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It's more fun to watch without joining in.
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My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.
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Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.
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Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.
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Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.
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Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me.
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The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.
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The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practising Christians. Their lives are the proofs of their beliefs.
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The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.
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To change, to convert? Why bother?
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To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.
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