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

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

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

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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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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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Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.

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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.

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I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Clergyman

Born: February 6th, 1930

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