JD Vance Defends Hope That His Wife Will Come to ‘Believe in the Christian Gospel’

Cosmic Charlie said:

I just can't pass up a pun.

(and, yes, I know what that says about my purse cutting scruples )

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JimR-OCDS said:

BTW I believe this was in the book written by William Shirer, who was an American journalist who followed
Ghandhi throughout most of his career in India.

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Why Ghandi Didn't Become A Christian | Good News Unlimited

Mohandas Ghandi was surely one of the greatest moral leaders of the modern times. Ghandi was once asked what he thought about Western Civilisation. Gandhi

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What many people don’t know is that Ghandi for a period very seriously considered becoming a Christian. He studied the gospels intensely, and it is reported that he even sold Christian Bibles for a time.

In this period, while he was intensely studying the gospel in South Africa, Ghandi heard about a small Christian church in his area, and he decided to attend the church service. But when he arrived, he was stopped at the door by the English elder on duty, who said to him,

“Where do you think you’re going, kaffir?” (Kaffir is a term of racial abuse for dark-skinned people in South Africa.)

Gandhi replied, “I’d like to attend worship here.” Then church elder said to him,

“There’s no room for kaffirs in this church. Get out of here or I’ll have my assistants throw you down the steps.”

Many years later, the missionary Stanley Jones asked Ghandi why he had not become a Christian. Ghandi replied, “I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. They are so unlike your Christ.”

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Bob Crowley said:

I didn't know Shirer had written a book about Gandhi. I read his book "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" several times until my paperback copy fell apart.

I thought it was the definite history of the Third Reich.

South African racism, which was the home of Aparthied, had a bearing on his dislike of Christians.

Why Ghandi Didn't Become A Christian | Good News Unlimited

Mohandas Ghandi was surely one of the greatest moral leaders of the modern times. Ghandi was once asked what he thought about Western Civilisation. Gandhi

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An American journalist’s friendship with Mahatma Gandhi gave India a megaphone around the world

An admirer of the Mahatma, William Shirer presented India’s message to his readers in the US and Europe, who until then had been fed on the British narrative.

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