Lionel Blue Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“To change, to convert? Why bother?”

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

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

“I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.”

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

“This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet.”

“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.”

“For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be.”

“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.”