Quote by Lionel Blue
My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion.

My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston. – Lionel Blue

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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. – Lionel Blue

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

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

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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense. – Carl Sagan

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Not all religion is to be found in the church, any more than all knowledge is found in the classroom. – Author Unknown

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I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. – Herbert Read

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Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion. – Ville Valo

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