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Lionel Blue

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

Jew

Ordinary

Said

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.

Book

Class

Religious

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.

Birth

Casting

Miracle

Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.

Comeback

Discrimination

Insult

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

Home

School

War

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

Idolatry

Reefs

Saws

For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be.

Christian

Jesus

Unique

For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.

Devotee

Lovers

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

Kingdoms

Republic

Years

I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn’t been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.

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Quotes by Lionel Blue

Lionel Blue

An aged rabbi, crazed with liberalism, once said to me, We Jews are just ordinary human beings. Only a bit more so!

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.

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.

During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be.

For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.

For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.

I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn’t been very comfortable. Taken together, their limitations cancel each other out and I have seen the world more kindly and more honestly.

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