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“The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.”

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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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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…

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I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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So many plusses, so many minuses.

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

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It's more fun to watch without joining in.

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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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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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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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Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is…

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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,…

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I wonder if it's possible to have a love affair that lasts forever.

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For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it…

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As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of…

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Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience…

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The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

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My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again.

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In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran's popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed…

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Not everyone likes the stable, gradual rise of our country. There are some who are using the democratic ideology to interfere in our internal…

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The archives recall not one single incriminating incident, not one drunken escapade, not one reported affair, not one spat with a team-mate or reporter…

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