“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.
Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.
I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.
During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.