I once asked God what I could give him. "Your problems," he said.... by Lionel Blue

I once asked God what I could give him. "Your problems," he said. "I've got everything else.

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I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.

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Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dep... by Lionel Blue

Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.

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On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.

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

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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.

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The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shoc... by Lionel Blue

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.

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I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was... by Lionel Blue

I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get.

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I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version. by Lionel Blue

I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.

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

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

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To change, to convert? Why bother? by Lionel Blue

To change, to convert? Why bother?

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This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet. by Lionel Blue

This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet.

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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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For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will alwa... by Lionel Blue

For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.

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At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.

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Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.

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Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity.

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I still go to a Christian priory for retreats. by Lionel Blue

I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.

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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.

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