Posted by: fourfederalrepublics March 5, 2007
"RELIGIOUS CONVERSION"
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Ruth Kirawa, I am unable to accept that you didn't have a religion. You had a religion, your parents had one. You were born in a religion, born with a religion. You couldn't find stability in your religion. You couldn't understand your religion. The Great Philosopher M.K.Gandhi famously said: "I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." "When the missionary of another religion goes to them, he goes like a vendor of goods. He has no special spiritual merit that will distinguish him from those to whom he goes. He does however possess material goods which he promises to those who will come to his fold." " My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith." "It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world’s progress toward peace … Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man? (Harijan: January 30, 1937)" "I came to the conclusion long ago … that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them, and whilst I hold by my own, I should hold others as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we are Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu … But our innermost prayer should be a Hindu should be a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian. (Young India: January 19, 1928)"
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