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Lionel Blue | christmas

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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Lionel Blue war

Lionel Blue | war

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

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Lionel Blue Sympathy

Lionel Blue | sympathy

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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Lionel Blue society

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 political anti-Semitism, then this encounter, deeper than any theology, may happen.

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Lionel Blue sad

Lionel Blue | sad

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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Lionel Blue religion

Lionel Blue | religion

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

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Lionel Blue religion

Lionel Blue | religion

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.