“The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.”
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Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
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.
During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
