"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." -- Mahatma Gan

Question

Gandhi. Does this statement still stand true today? What do you think of his views? Is this the same message the whole world has been trying to communicate to Christians?

Answer 1

Yes, I do think that this statement is true today. I think that Gandhi's views are very accurate, and that this quote should be read more. I used this once in a speech - to bad that my audience was very small. I think that it gives people something to think about. Why would someone who wasn't "Christian" make such a powerful observation. Surely there is some truth behind it? Yes. There is. Yes, sadly, it is still true today. I think a major objective of all Christians is to make people say, " I like your Christ, I like your Christians. Your Christians are everything like your Christ".

Answer 2

I'm not a big fan of Gandhi, but I agree with these statements almost wholeheartedly. The history of organized Christianity is just as bloody as any other history you wish to choose. I believe in The Christ, not in the perversions of His teachings.

Answer 3

So very true.

Many Christians try to hard. To believe in God is not about trying, just do it. Give your heart and soul to Him and He Will lead you where He wants you to go. Most Christians today still sin against Him, then ask for forgiveness over and over again for the same sin. That's not the way it works. If you sin by accident and repent, He will forgive you. If you sin on purpose and keep doing it then He will eventually stop forgiving, because what's the use if you keep committing the same sin. Most Christians love to gossip about anything. I love Christ and there are ALOT of Christians that could use some work on their Christianity skills.

Answer 4

Sadly, Gandhi may be right. I am a Christian but I am so sick of seeing what people do "in the name of" Christ. Jesus preached a message of moral and ethical life and personal salvation. Too many Christians today are so obsessed with getting "brownie points" with God. They like to act like they are so holy and virtuous, even though the "meek will inherit the earth."
Christians need to realize that you attract more flies with honey than vinegar. You get your message across with love and peace, not warfare and damnation.

Answer 5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi#Civil_Rights_Movement_in_South_Africa_.281893.E2.80.941914.29

South Africa changed him dramatically, as he faced the discrimination commonly directed at blacks and Indians. One day in court at Durban, the magistrate asked him to remove his turban. Gandhi refused and stormed out of the courtroom. He was thrown off a train at Pietermaritzburg, after refusing to move from the first class to a third class coach while holding a valid first class ticket. Traveling further on by stagecoach, he was beaten by a driver for refusing to travel on the foot board to make room for a European passenger. He suffered other hardships on the journey as well, including being barred from many hotels. These incidents have been acknowledged by several biographers as a turning point in his life, for his activism later. It was through witnessing firsthand the racism, prejudice and injustice against Indians in South Africa that Gandhi started to question his people's status, and his own place in society.

Yes.

Since the time Gandhi was thrown off a train in South Africa by white Christians.

Most, not all, white Christians have shown bigotry, prejudice, hypocrisy and hatred for non-whites and non-Christians.

The saddest thing about Gandhi's death? It wasn't a Jew, Christian or Muslim who killed him. His fellow Hindu murdered him.

Answer 6

I think it's because the people who claim to be followers of Jesus do more following of Paul/Saul than of the one they call Lord.

Buy a red letter edition of the Christian bible, read just the red stuff, that was what Jesus is believed to have said.

Is it the same message the world has been trying to communicate? No, some parts of the world have their own hate going on.

Answer 7

Mahatma Gandhi was a man throwing stones from outside of his knowledge base.

Good man, but has no real authority to discern a faith that he has not experienced. Mother Teresa entered his world directly and lived as they lived and as the example of Christ many years later.

I respect his sincerity.

Answer 8

I've heard that and I agree with it. I am a Christian, I think people view Christians as hypocrites because they say "you shouldnt do this or that" and we are all sinners.sometimes we seem like haters,but we are trying to do what the BIBLE says is good and right, Its very hard. I have a problem with swearing when I"m mad and I pray about it and try not to do it , but I still do eventually when I"m mad. I tell my kids not to do it, so am I a hypocrite, no I love my kids, I dont want them to grow up swearing when they are mad. I know that some Christians are hypocrites though. Jesus is all about love, and forgiveness. So that is what Christianity is supposed to be about, it's hard to talk about things that you dont agree with without sounding like a hypocrite,take for example homosexuality, I dont agree with it and I will always vote against gay marriage, but that doesnt mean I hate homosexuals, I just hate the sin. Or abortion, I dont hate a woman for getting an abortion, I hate the fact that she murdered her baby. I know alot of women who have had abortions and I dont hate them I love them.

Answer 9

Methinks Gandhi was referring to WHY people don't behave in the MANNER OF CHRIST. Such as Kindness, Love, Respect, Honor for each other, etc..

Answer 10

i think that statement is true for alot of people but not true for all Christians. I think that people make the mistake of thinking that just because someone says they believe in Christ and call themselves a Christian that they really are one. That is just not true. Even the Bible teaches that there will be many who call on His name saying Lord Lord, and the Lord will say depart from me for I never knew you. We must be careful to discern what people tell us.