WERE YOU TAUGHT BOTH SIDES OF GANDHI? With all due respect, Gandhi engaged in a bit of hypocrisy as a Hindu teaching nonviolence (“Ahimsa”), while also helping recruit Hindus to fight World War I. However, when World War II came around, Gandhi did stick to Ahimsa in his resistance of that war; and he took a lot of flak for it. But of course that non-violence philosophy comes from another Hindu false hope: escaping “samsara,” which is the false teaching that we’re all in an endless cycle of death and rebirth over and over because of our karma. With that false orientation to his thinking, listen to Gandhi's response when asked if Hindu's should have sat and done nothing as the Jewish-Holocaust atrocity was happening during WWII: "Hitler killed five millions Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from the cliffs.” That was Gandhi suggesting a better way Jews could have died, supposedly as heroes. Is he suggesting the way to counteract evil is to kill yourself? What kind of philosophy is that? As you’ve no doubt seen, the image of Gandhi has been Westernized and greatly romanticized to the point where people are often quoting him on social media. But why would we want to quote and promote a guy who believes in Hinduism? How about using passages from the Bible instead? Did we run out of Bible quotes? Unfortunately, I even see Christians doing that and I just wonder why we'd want to promote it. Of course I know it’s only from a lack of doing the homework on Hinduism.