"Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas……" — Lionel Blue
"Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther."
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50 Quotes by Lionel Blue
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The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in…
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My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've…
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To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish…
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Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.
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I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons…
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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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For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom…
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I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
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It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were…
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It's more fun to watch without joining in.
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Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils…
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Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physical resurrection…
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More Aquinas Quotes
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Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed…
— Carl Sagan
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A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust…
— Martin Luther
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Commentators who today talk of 'The Dark Ages' when faith instead of reason was said to ruthlessly rule, have for…
— David Berlinski
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I reject her [Ayn Rand's] philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it…
— Paul Ryan
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One day when Thomas Aquinas was preaching to the local populace on the love of God, he saw an old…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Again, I hear almost everyday from atheists who write off religion as primitive, premodern nonsense. I summon Aquinas, Augustine, Paul…
— Robert Barron
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There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to…
— Bertrand Russell
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Dawkins’s problem is that he doesn’t know the difference between probabilistic empirical theorizing and strict metaphysical demonstration, and thus misreads…
— Edward Feser
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Searching for a better description of this rotting sadness, I came upon the concept of acedia. In Christian theology, it’s…
— Mishka
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I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that…
— James A. Michener
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Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of…
— Allan Bloom
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The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question…
— Wilfred Trotter
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