I’ve seen this quote several times and it reminds me of the very deep struggles I’ve had with my own spirituality.
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
I’ve long since passed my crisis of faith and let’s just say things didn’t turn out well between my formal religion and I. I’m still a spiritual person to a degree but haven’t been quite able to pin that down specifically. But as to why I have such a hard time with my, and other christian denominations, I present to you this guy right here:
It’s very difficult to believe that this is how a Christian is supposed to behave. But then by my guess, most Christians forgot how to do that around a couple of thousand years ago. Hence my free agency in the religion department.
Marlborogirl // Jan 26, 2009 at 9:30 am
Is this guy a Christian one?
I am completely amazed ,
I am glad that I spiritual person ,
I beleive in myself
Edwin // Jan 27, 2009 at 8:38 am
Thanks for your share. I’m Christians. I feel this guy have bad experience with Christianity. Not all christians have bad character.
Ling // Jan 27, 2009 at 10:28 am
He’s got a unique way of putting it, but not so different from the fire and brimstone preachers who demand you follow them or you’re labeled as the heathen.
Every man’s faith is a deeply personal issue. Can’t tell anyone what to believe. Or not. Has to come from inside.
Hüseyin Kafkas // Jan 28, 2009 at 9:04 pm
5 stars for role and all
KDL-46XBR8 TV Store // Jan 30, 2009 at 10:33 am
I dont think your religion makes you a bad person. If you chose to be a jacka**, please dont blame Christ, God, Budha, etc for your behavor.
suib // Jan 30, 2009 at 6:58 pm
I’ve seen this quote several times
dan // Jan 31, 2009 at 1:16 pm
No respectable christian would speak that way.
I don’t care about the yelling, or even the anger & frustration in his eyes. It’s the dis-respectable words themselves that are the issue.
Duabi Dreams // Feb 1, 2009 at 6:00 pm
Unfortunately though there are so many zealots like this representing every religious and political belief.
goacom // Feb 6, 2009 at 1:52 pm
We need to pray for him. There is no point in accusing him of being a bad person. We all need to look at our own selves first. We need to change. He is just in a state that he is not able to realise. Only Jesus in his mighty power and infinite mercy can save him.
By the way Gandhi wasn’t right. He said something which makes sense sometimes.Not all the time. That way many phrases and proverbs also make sense. Not always though.
Gandhi was the biggest champion of peace though. Someone who is dificult to emulate in todays world. And even though he was not lucky to find the true God, his deeds will have seen him through.
Ernie Small // Feb 13, 2009 at 9:41 pm
it’s truly hard for me to comprehend how so many “fundamental” christian beliefs stand blatantly at odds with what Christ himself taught (tolerance, peace, etc…). i hope that someday Christians, and most other popular religions for that matter, will be able to finally see this irony and change their more “extreme” social stances.
NetSafe card // Mar 5, 2009 at 12:56 am
It is not the religion. There are good and bad people in every religion. Do good things and that is what important
Darkone // Mar 14, 2009 at 4:05 am
I hate religions, all of them! I like faith, but what MAN has done to religion cant be undone.
We have taken it and bent the rules to our own advantage, to the point that i dont even know what the rules are anymore
Western churchs have made religion into a money making business and easten religions keep blowing up s**t in the name of God.
So how can you wake up in the morning and look at yourself and say “yes! I am good, because of my religon” if you are good, then you are good end of story.
Keep your faith to yourself, it’s a partnership between you and your God/God’s nobody else.