For A Devotee Or Lover, The Being,

Early On I Saw The Repression And Idolatry Of Stalinism, And When It Cracked, I Was Open To Religion Again.

Because Of My Marxism, I Was Not Into Myths Or Miracles, Whether It Was The Virgin Birth, The Physical Resurrection Or Casting Out Demons From An Epileptic.

Discrimination Against Jews Can Be Read In Thomas Aquinas, And Insults Against Jews In Martin Luther.

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.

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.