Re: Dawkins the 'Cultural Christian'

Martin Harran <martinharran@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 11:59:21 +0100, Ernest Major
<{$to$}@meden.demon.co.uk> wrote:
 

On 12/04/2024 13:06, Martin Harran wrote:

On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 22:20:46 -0600, Pro Plyd
<invalide@invalid.invalid> wrote:
 

I'm reminded of a couple of Gandhi quotes
>
"If Christians would really live according
to the teachings of Christ, as found in the
Bible, all of India would be Christian today."
>
"Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you
Christians - you are not like him."
>
"I like your Christ, I do not like your
Christians. Your Christians are so
unlike your Christ."

 
Do you think Gandhi was applying that to *all* Christians or even
Christians in general and, if so do you agree with him?

>
In the absence of any context to make me think otherwise I would take
these quotes at face value as applying to the generality of Christians.

 
That would disappoint me. I'm pretty sure that Gandhi would have
experienced firsthand the bigotry that Indians suffer due to
stereotyping, and I would like to think he wouldn't fall into the trap
of doing the same to other groups.

As far as I'm aware, all of those quotes are apocryphal. At least,
none of them has been reliably attributed to Gandhi.

Andrew.