Mahatma Ghandi once famously said: "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
Before you respond to that, before you have a thought or a visceral reaction -- just be quiet.
Nope. Not yet. I'm serious. Be quiet and reflect on the quote for at least a minute, then go on.
Every time I read or hear that quote, it causes me to wince a little bit and to do some serious introspection. Why? Because there's truth to it. Too much truth.
And honestly, I don't even think it's because Ghandi saw Christians be imperfect. I doubt very much that it was even over our hypocrisy, though that is a possibility and a very prevalent theory.
I think Ghandi was most repulsed by the thing that many modern day non-believers are kept at bay by:
We're mean.
