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