I am ambivalent about Gandhi; like the Dalai Lama, I think of him as a good man with some good points who has been semi-deified by much of the west, which lets us overlook some very real flaws in their actions. However, much of what he said and did was remarkable, and I stumbled across this quote, which I particularly like.
Scriptures cannot transcend reason and truth. They are intended to purify reason and illuminate truth. Every formula of every religion has, in this age of reason, to submit to the test of reason and universal justice if it is to ask for universal assent. Error can claim no exemption even if it can be supported by the scriptures of the world.
This was a man who devoted his life to what he saw as the principles of the Bhagavad Gita and told the Christians and Muslims of India that their own holy books were also divine in nature; here we see not an attack on faith, but a demand for reason and doubt and temperance. So, uh, go Gandhi!
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