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Lionel Blue


British
February 6, 1930
Clergyman
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So many plusses, so many minuses.


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Tags: Many
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I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.


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Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses.


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Tags: Good Just Things
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Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit.


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Tags: Me Had Which
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I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.


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Tags: Good Things Many
The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.
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Tags: Just More Than
Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.
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Tags: Me Some New
At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Lionel Blue
Tags: Up Very Go
On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.
Lionel Blue
Tags: Work Me Them
The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practising Christians. Their lives are the proofs of their beliefs.
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Tags: How Real Him
My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.
Lionel Blue
Tags: Religion Like Day
I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.
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Tags: Fear Sad More