Reply #176: Gandhi very pointedly and deliberately remained Hindu. There seems to be no question

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that Gandhi had at least a very deep attraction to some of the gospel sayings. But he seems to work out his views within Hinduism. It is perhaps also worth saying that Gandhi does not regard his approach as irrational: he thinks he is working out Truth by an experimental method -- and he apparently regarded Jesus not only as a miracle-worker, but as a miracle-worker of a sort that any of the rest of us could become

So your thesis that Gandhi was influenced by an irrational and mythical Christ-figure doesn't really accord with Gandhi's views. And from a Christian perspective, if one wants to be historically accurate about Gandhi, it might be more accurate to say that Gandhi, although Hindu, cast some profound light on Christianity and nonviolence