Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
Jews are just like everyone else, only more so. - Lionel Blue
Jews are just like everyone else, only more so.
- Lionel Blue
I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to politi… - Lionel Blue
I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open society continues and there is no return to politi…
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
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.
In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two. - Lionel Blue
In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.
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
Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.
The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge. - Lionel Blue
The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.
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. - Lionel Blue
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 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 … - Lionel Blue
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 …
To change, to convert? Why bother? - Lionel Blue
To change, to convert? Why bother?
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