tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post5493164002452518883..comments2024-03-24T19:55:32.537-05:00Comments on The View from This Seat: In Praise of a “Half-naked Fakir”LKSeathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-1192885990126920622018-01-26T09:37:42.403-06:002018-01-26T09:37:42.403-06:00"So-called Christians" seem to be of all..."So-called Christians" seem to be of all stripes - about as diverse as Christendom is. There are a few who are very GOOD ambassadors, but they are very few. There are a few very BAD apples as well, but on the curve, they are very few as well. It seems to be them/us that have made the militant atheists who they are. This week I observed a couple of missionaries take the hit. And a few others joined the stone-throwers union. We/I MUST learn better the commandments - Love your neighbor, and Love one another. <br /><br />Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner. Please conform me into Your image (not a stone-thrower's image of You, from any stripe).<br /><br />Thank you, John.1sojournerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08541170856645246334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-85801910820323613762018-01-25T20:05:52.881-06:002018-01-25T20:05:52.881-06:00I got curious, and nosed around the web to see wha...I got curious, and nosed around the web to see what I could find. Some sources included a variation of the quote. However, one source that specifically addressed fake Gandhi quotes put this at number 5 on his list of 7. Personally, I was more sad to learn about number 6: "Interviewer: What do you think about Western Civilization? Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea." For the full list, check here: https://gizmodo.com/7-gandhi-quotes-that-are-totally-fake-1716503435Craig Dempseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00033176451913108084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-73201738660063906202018-01-25T16:58:26.672-06:002018-01-25T16:58:26.672-06:00Here are comments from Thinking Friend Eric Dollar...Here are comments from Thinking Friend Eric Dollard in Chicago:<br /><br />"Thanks, Leroy, for your comments about Gandhi.<br /><br />"Ben Kingsley did an admirable job portraying Gandhi in what is great film, as you have said. Gandhi reminds us, echoing Jesus, that nonviolence must begin within each one of us before we can turn societies and governments away from violence. <br /><br />"One interesting perspective on Gandhi is found in Erik Erikson's 'Gandhi's Truth.' I read it a number of years ago; perhaps I should reread it."<br />LKSeathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-1512820061712690672018-01-25T15:51:30.944-06:002018-01-25T15:51:30.944-06:00What an example of a Good&Decent human being w...What an example of a Good&Decent human being was Gandhi!<br />I actually cried when I recently watched a Movie about Gandhi and how he and others were treated by us `So-called Christians`.<br />Hard to imagine that Any christian would prevent him from entering their church.<br />I doubt that JESUS would be a Christian in today`s world of such poor examples of Christianity?<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17707344273024900999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-74916292485246622662018-01-25T09:22:55.268-06:002018-01-25T09:22:55.268-06:00Thinking Friend Dan O'Reagan in Louisiana wrot...Thinking Friend Dan O'Reagan in Louisiana wrote early this morning,<br /><br />"Hi, Leroy. Was Gandhi not the one who said, "I would be a Christian if I could see a Christian?' Was that after being denied entrance to a Christian church where he was told that they did not allow 'n------' in there?"<br /><br />Responding by email I said that I have heard/read various accounts of such an incident. However, I have been unable to find any first-hand sources about that -- so for that reason I used the quote in the article from the missionary to India who reported what he had heard Gandhi say.<br /><br />C.F. Andrews, a Christian missionary from Great Britain, tells about Gandhi being refused entrance to the church in South Africa where he (Andrews) was preaching in January 1913 (see "Routledge Revivals: Mahatma Gandhi's Ideas" 1929). He and Gandhi had a long, cordial relationship after that, and unless I missed it, Gandhi says nothing about that or any other bad church experience in his autobiography.<br /><br />If anyone can provide me with some primary source material (as opposed to sermon illustration material), I would appreciate it.LKSeathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.com