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"Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit."
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"Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther."

"In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two."

"I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly."

"I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs."

"The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practising Christians. Their lives are the proofs of their beliefs."
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"Only a handful of individuals in human history can be truly hailed as Christians, such as Tolstoy, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Rumi, Martin Luther King Jr. and a few others."

"What is happening within Christianity is that it doesn't know it needs to promote itself."

"The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of."

"I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity."

"To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness."

"A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all."

"Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity."

"Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully."

"Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race."

"I realized there was very little in Hollywood I would ever feel comfortable doing. If I kept one foot there and one foot in my Christianity, I would never grow."
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