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" 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

Sometimes

Young

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Lionel Blue

Understand

Much

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

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

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Lionel Blue

Christian

Love

" I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew. "

" Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity. "

" 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. "

" What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I hardly knew? Probably, I would have looked the other way at best or become another apologist for evil at worst. "

" It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism. "

" 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. "

" Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life. "

" Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off. "

" 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. "

" I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford. "

Lionel Blue

Among

Quakers

" The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians. "

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

" 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

Christian

Ghetto

" This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet. "

" Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit. "

" Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me. "

Lionel Blue

Sense

Never

" My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely. "

" I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay. "