Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.