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" The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me. "
Lionel Blue
Christian
Love
Me
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" 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. "
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Him
Manifest
Real
" Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit. "
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Faces
Two
Pictures
" 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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Birth
Myths
Miracles
" Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses. "
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Just
Good
Things
" 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. "
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Go
Christian
Ghetto
" I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things. "
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Good
Grateful
Things
" For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him. "
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Him
Will
Her
" It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism. "
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Fanaticism
Know
Possible
" Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off. "
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Kingdom
Wonderful
Sense
" Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me. "
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Sense
Never
Me
" 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
Accept
Sometimes
Young
" 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. "
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Done
Life
People
" For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be. "
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Way
Christian
God
" Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther. "
Lionel Blue
Jews
Against
Insults
" For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God. "
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Religion
God
Goodness
" Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity. "
Lionel Blue
Devils
Family
Gas
" I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay. "
Lionel Blue
Open
Nervous
Edge
" So many plusses, so many minuses. "
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Many
" In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two. "
Lionel Blue
Two
Think
Speak
" 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. "
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Heaven
True
Life
" 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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Spiritual
Cares
Just
" During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school. "
Lionel Blue
World
Home
School
" I still go to a Christian priory for retreats. "
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Christian
Retreats
Still
" I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get. "
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Love
Falling
Best
" 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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Stick
Sympathy
Pity
" Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again. "
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Again
Early
Idolatry
" I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much. "
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Understand
Much
Like
" 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. "
Lionel Blue
Now
World
Together
" I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew. "
Lionel Blue
Worshipping
Another
Jew