"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Mahatma Gandhi
What did he mean by that?
2006-07-01 09:54:05 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He meant that Christians are not living a very christlike life, and sadly, its getting worse, now that there are so damned many fundamentalist bigots around. Ghandi was more Christian than any 'rightious' pentecostal or southern baptist or any other fundamentalist could ever dream of being.
2006-07-01 10:03:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 34⤊ 2⤋
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"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Mahatma Gandhi
What did he mean by that?
2015-08-24 11:50:08 · answer #2 · answered by Pearce 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in my opinion he ment he liked the things Christ taught love for you fellow man, tolerance, forgiveness, dont' be greedy,etc. ANd he saw as I do all over the place most people who call them selfs Christians only follow Christs teaching only so far as is comfortable to them. Ambrose Bierce said it this way - "Christian- (n) One believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ in so far as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin."
2006-07-01 10:05:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Well, I didn't know Christ...none of us did or do. But I do know many Christians...certainly enough to know that very few of them pattern their lives after Christ. On the other hand, there are a few of them I wouldn't mind nailing up on a cross.
2006-07-01 10:00:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Christian are human being as Gandhi, They are all not God and Not Jesus. Who am i to Judge? If Gandhi does not want to be Christian no one forced him. He though he is the best on this world? no, not at all. We are all human being, we have mistake, we made thing sometimes not correct, as human being we are all have limitation. whoever and what religion we belong, we still have our limitation. therefore, i would like to quote Pope Francis that said " who am i to judge? Is Gandhi correct when he judge Christian People? Is Gandhi Perfect? Peace
2015-04-06 13:22:22 · answer #5 · answered by AB 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He meant Christians do not act the way they are supposed to, we are supposed to be more Christ-like, that means drawing people closer to God, but instead some of us seem to be drawing them away from God with our rudeness.
2006-07-01 11:20:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yep, agree. He means that Christ is a good guy, and the people that follow him should start actually following him (as opposed to following Paul).
2006-07-01 10:04:47 · answer #7 · answered by Snark 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
He meant that the lives of christians did not reflect the life of christ. He meant to challenge christians and the western powers that be to go into their own spiritual practice and really become christ like.
I agree
2006-07-01 09:57:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 16⤊ 1⤋
watty_ofthe_... is right. And Christians can never be exactly like Christ. We can only "work" on one "unChristlike" quality at a time. While some will become super nice, kind, and gentle. Give and work in charities for charity's sake. They will never be like Christ.
I Agree.
2006-07-01 10:10:23 · answer #9 · answered by suthrndaysi 4 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Because Christ was thet prime figure for Christianity.
The Christians back then where not.
Alot of them were hipakrits and sinned taking no notice to the Christian rules.
He once told Christians that once they can prove themselves and stop with the war and sin and hipokritism he will convert India to Christianity.
This all means Gandhi liked the idea of Christianity, but not the Christians.
2006-07-01 10:03:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋