Just a musing, but someone like Gandhi was probably profoundly Christian. He exhibited the virtues of Christ, the virtues that make Christ stand out from everyone else who ever claimed greatness. He loved his enemies, he looked out for the oppressed, he turned the other cheek. He showed love, humility, meekness, in everything he did. He was, may I put it, Christ-like in his actions.

My exchange friend Danny (I'll really miss him when he's gone - love the times we spend just chilling and musing and talking about everything in life - we really can click so well, he's really one of my best friends over this past year. He thinks a lot like me. The best part is that he loves to sit and drink beer and just chill and chat, for hours and hours, like me) feels that Gandhi is more Christian than Billy Graham. True, Billy speaks about the Bible, but what great is that? And Billy does not cheat on his wife, or kill, or steal, but that's basic human behaviour. He could very well be Muslim, or Buddhist, or whoever. What makes Christ special is his association with the lowest of the low, and his love for his enemies. And most Christians don't show this. (in all fairness, mainly because they/we don't have the chance to do so)

What is greater, acting out the words of Christ, or speaking about it?

Which is why it is sad that Protestants did away with the monastic movement, because it removes a great opportunity for us normal humans to interact with the lowest of the low. It removes from us a great chance to really be Christ-like. I have such a great love and admiration for the monastic movement, for the Catholic Brothers and Sisters who give their lives to living like Christ.

And one of the main reasons why Jesus is still so special to me is because His moral codes and loving behaviour were really amazing... few other religious leaders preached as He preached. Love your enemies - who dares to teach such stuff?

Which is why I cannot see why God would send someone like Gandhi to hell, when his behaviour was so much like Jesus's. Gandhi was more Christian than I could ever hope to be.