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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 began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.
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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 practising Christians.
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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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Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
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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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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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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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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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I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get.
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Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.
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