An Amazing Life

[Splendour]

For some reason I was reflecting on the movie Gandhi and thinking how Gandhi seemed to be an admirer of Christ...then I thought of Martin Luther King Jr. and he was a Baptist minister and also a follower of Christ...Seems that Jesus Christ is the father of non-violent civil resistance...And therefore had an influence on India's independence and on the U.S. civil rights movement...

[David Sklansky]

Let me be the first one to get in the obvious retort. Most Protestants and some Catholics think that those who believed what Ghandi proclaimed to believe will go to hell.(I said it that way rather than the more direct "believe Ghandi went to hell" to avoid the inevitable "no man knows who is saved etc etc)

[tame_deuces]

Well, I don't think anybody is disputing that sometimes religious people can do good things, and sometimes they will probably even do those things because they are religious.

Ofcourse it all depends on how you define 'good', but now I'm just using it arbitrarily as some broad defintion I believe most people could atleast agree somewhat on (being just, believing in principles of equality, not hurting people physically/emotionally, furthering those principles etc).

[PairTheBoard]

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Let me be the first one to get in the obvious retort. Most Protestants and some Catholics think that those who believed what Ghandi proclaimed to believe will go to hell.(

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You are guessing again.

PairTheBoard

[David Sklansky]

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Let me be the first one to get in the obvious retort. Most Protestants and some Catholics think that those who believed what Ghandi proclaimed to believe will go to hell.(

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You are guessing again.

PairTheBoard

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Maybe so. In fact I will go as far as to say that the statement is probably wrong. How bout if I changed it those who strictly follow the Potestant line?

[Sephus]

For some reason I was reflecting on the movie Forrest Gump and thinking how Forrest Gump seemed to be an admirer of Christ...Seems that Jesus Christ is the father of shrimp boat captaining, meeting presidents, and running across the country in a quest to understand why Jenny left...

[Neuge]

Gandhi may have been an admirer of JC, but he derived his nonviolence from Jainism, and subsequently MLK from him. It's pretty disingenuous to attribute their nonviolence to JC.

[Splendour]

No seriously Sephus I put in Gandhi and Christ in my search engine and came up with this censored website article...Seems Gandhi was very taken with the Sermon on the Mount and the turn the other cheek philosophy of Christ and also by Christ's words on the cross...He believed Christ was extraordinary but never accepted him as his Savior...Still it seems the Prince of Peace is present today in the passive resistance movement...a divine thread???

[PairTheBoard]

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Let me be the first one to get in the obvious retort. Most Protestants and some Catholics think that those who believed what Ghandi proclaimed to believe will go to hell.(

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You are guessing again.

PairTheBoard

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Maybe so. In fact I will go as far as to say that the statement is probably wrong. How bout if I changed it those who strictly follow the Potestant line?

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The "Protestant line"? Maybe you should try psychically communicating exactly what it is you mean to say. Then you could bypass the nuisance of having to use words altogether.

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[luckyme]

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And therefore had an influence on India's independence and on the U.S. civil rights movement...

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You're right. It was pretty well 100% christians under the hoods.

luckyme