"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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The craft is in the blunt catalogue. By stacking “virgin birth,” “physical resurrection,” and “casting out demons,” Blue refuses to rank miracles by plausibility; he treats them as a single genre: narratives that do explanatory work. Then he lands on the most pointed example: “an epileptic.” That phrasing drags the Gospel world into modern medical language, exposing how spiritualized diagnoses can become a kind of misrecognition - and, implicitly, cruelty. The subtext is ethical: if you call illness “demons,” you may feel holy while failing the person in front of you.
Context matters: Blue was a British rabbi-turned-broadcaster known for a humane, slightly mischievous candor, shaped by postwar politics and the New Left’s moral seriousness. His intent isn’t to sneer at belief but to reclaim a religious vocation from spectacle. The quiet dare in the sentence is this: if you strip away the magic tricks, does your religion still have something to offer?
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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." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/because-of-my-marxism-i-was-not-into-myths-or-5658/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
