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"I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things."
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"Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that. The more people see us and come to know us, the more I believe they will come to realize that we are trying to exemplify in our lives and in our living the great ideals which (Jesus Christ) taught."
"Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church."
"The birth of Jesus Christ is a reminder of what Adam and Eve failed to do in the Garden of Eden."
"I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it."
"To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness."
"Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool."
"Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully."
"Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical."
"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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"For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God."
"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."
"At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming."
"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."
"The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge."
"I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay."
"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."
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