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. Lionel Blue Read Quote
Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther. Lionel Blue Read Quote
Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude Christianity. Lionel Blue Read Quote
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. Lionel Blue Read Quote
In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two. Lionel Blue Read Quote
During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school. Lionel Blue Read Quote
The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me. Lionel Blue Read Quote
At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming. Lionel Blue Read Quote
Christianity had two faces which bewildered me – two pictures which didn’t fit. Lionel Blue Read Quote
