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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

"Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world."

"The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity."

"Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals."

"So I will go as far as I can into rock and roll carrying my Christian banner."

"The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all."
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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."

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

"I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay."

"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."

"To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies."

"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."

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

"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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