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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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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version. "

" So many plusses, so many minuses. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism. "

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

" This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet. "

" To change, to convert? Why bother? "

" 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. "

" I still go to a Christian priory for retreats. "

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" Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses. "

" 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. "

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