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
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.
christmas christian jesus
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.
christian giving political
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.
people devil good-christian
Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.
grateful reform christianity
I have ended as a Reform Rabbi, grateful to Christianity for so many good things.
christian jesus thinking
In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.
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.