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Bethune was a communist and an atheist with a healthy contempt for his evangelical father.
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― The Politics of Passion: Norman Bethune's Writing and Art
― The Politics of Passion: Norman Bethune's Writing and Art
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I became aware of Jews in my early teens, as I started to pick up the signals from the Christian church. Not that I was Christian – I’d been an atheist since I was five. But my father, a Congregational minister, had some sympathy with the idea that the Jews had killed Christ. But any indoctrination was offset by my discovery of the concentration camps, of the Final Solution. Whilst the term 'Holocaust' had yet to enter the vocabulary I was overwhelmed by my realisation of what Germany had perpet
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