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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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" It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were full of meat. "

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" To change, to convert? Why bother? "

" 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. "

" On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned. "

" I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses. "

" I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs. "

" I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew. "

" Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again. "

" Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off. "

" I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much. "

" I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things. "

" For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be. "

" I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay. "

" So many plusses, so many minuses. "

" An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so! "

" 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. "

" Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther. "

" At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming. "

" Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me. "

" 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. "

" I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn't have to go very far to pick up their know-how. "

" 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. "

" The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me. "