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Originally Posted by Suannehill
Ghandi was actually raised in Africa in a Christian school. The concepts of "non violent protest" and equality were actually learned there. There were no such teachings in India. People stayed in the caste that they were born into. You did not join the other caste for any reason.
Ghandi liked Christ but was not so impressed with Christians.
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Some interesting quotes by Gandhi
"Everyone thinks Jesus was a pacifist, except the Christians."
"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
“If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.”
“God has no religion”
I am a Muslim and a Hindu and a Christian and a Jew and so are all of you.
But our innermost prayer should be a Hindu should be a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian.
About this time, I heard of a well known Hindu having been converted to Christianity. It was the talk of the town that, when he was baptized, he had to eat beef and drink liquor, that he also had to change his clothes, and that thenceforth he began to go about in European costume including a hat. These things got on my nerves. Surely, thought I, a religion that compelled one to eat beef, drink liquor, and change one's own clothes did not deserve the name. I also heard that the new convert had already begun abusing the religion of his ancestors, their customs and their country. All these things created in me a dislike for Christianity.
I was able to reassure him and tell him that the
distorted belief of a Plymouth Brother could not prejudice me against Christianity.