During The Second World War, Evacuated To

Pious Xii Was Too Neutral To Mention The Gas Chambers; Decent People Like My Own Family Were Turned Into Devils By Crude Christianity.

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.

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.

At Religious Instruction Classes, I Encountered The Pilgrims Progress By John Bunyan, And The Sincerity Of The Traveller In That Book Was Overwhelming.

I Literally Fell Among Quakers When I Went Up To Oxford.