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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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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.
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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 feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.
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Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.
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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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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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Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.
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At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.
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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 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 have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.
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Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses.
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