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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. "

" I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit. "

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

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

" To change, to convert? Why bother? "

" This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet. "

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

" I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get. "

" 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. "

" 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 still go to a Christian priory for retreats. "

" For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school. "

" It's more fun to watch without joining in. "

" Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity. "

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

" 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. "

" Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent. "