Lionel Blue
Lionel Blue
Lionel Blueis a British Reform rabbi, journalist and broadcaster. He was the first British rabbi publicly to declare his homosexuality...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth6 February 1930
Someone gave me a New Testament. I had never before read it systematically. Some parts made sense, some parts shocked me.
though
I have begun to sympathetically understand Paul, though I don't like him much.
testament
Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.
based lives manifest speaking themselves
The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practising Christians. Their lives are the proofs of their beliefs.
Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit.
good referring
Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses.
war school home
During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
jew comfortable
I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.
song suffering want
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.
christian poison
This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet.
christian ghetto shame
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.
christian retreat stills
I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.
christian jesus unique
For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be.
miracle casting birth
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.