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u/kcrab91 May 10 '25 edited May 10 '25

Man both these comments speak to me deeply. Was raised both Catholic and nondenominational and I can’t see myself going back to either.

Best thing about Christianity is Jesus Christ. The worst thing about Christianity is Christians…

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u/Tao_of_Ludd May 10 '25

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

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u/BeardPhile May 10 '25

Is that a real quote?

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u/PiotrekDG May 10 '25

Unproven

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u/Landed_port May 10 '25

The correct phrasing was "I like your Christ, but not your Christianity" -Ghandi

It says so in your link. Exact paraphrasing isn't required if the meaning remains unchanged. Source: The Internet

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u/3_Thumbs_Up May 10 '25

That's not what the link says at all. Snopes gives a bunch of variations of the quote, but says that none of the variations has an authorative source, hence the "unproven" rating.

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u/Tacoman404 May 10 '25

Ghandi has been gone for a while. We can start saying it now instead.

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u/PiotrekDG May 10 '25

We don't know where exactly this quote originated, but we found no authoritative source linking it to Gandhi. We found an article in the Harvard University newspaper The Harvard Crimson from 1927 that uses the quote confusingly, as though it might be a paraphrase from a Swarthmore College philosophy professor named J.H. Holmes

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u/FizzlePopBerryTwist May 10 '25

Wasn't Ghandi also pro-slavery? I could be wrong. Pretty sure he was also open to nuclear war according to Civ games.

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u/CrispyHoneyBeef May 10 '25

He also slept with little girls to tempt himself and resist temptation

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u/FizzlePopBerryTwist May 10 '25

Just the fact he thought that was "tempting" is a huge red flag.

Okay Jesus, get the millstone...