re: #35 jamesfirecat

Dare I say it, but honestly I think that Gandhi had it right.

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

I say this as a semi-christian Presbo-agnostic myself…

I’m not a big fan of his. He did not accept the the things that had to be done to protect people like him from the monstrous forces of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. His ideas of non-violence remain the best tactics of protest, but they only work when dealing with a government that is restrained. Had the Japanese occupied an Indian city, they would have simply slaughtered any non-violent resistors en masse.