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" Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again. "
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" Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit. "
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" So many plusses, so many minuses. "
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" My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely. "
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" I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version. "
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" The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians. "
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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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" Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses. "
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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 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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" 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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" 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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" I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses. "
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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 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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" 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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" 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. "
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" I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew. "
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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 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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" What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst. "
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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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