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A popular quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi was likely never uttered by him — as is often the case with quotes widely shared online and attributed to famous people. I like your Christ, but not your Christianity, the famed Indian independence leader has been quoted as saying. An alternate version of the quote states, I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. Here's an example of a meme containing the quote, attributing it to Gandhi: (Screenshot, quotespedia.info) We don't know where exactly this quote originated, but we found no authoritative source linking it to Gandhi. We found an article in the Harvard University newspaper The Harvard Crimson from 1927 that uses the quote confusingly, as though it might be a paraphrase from a Swarthmore College philosophy professor named J.H. Holmes: Technology and science news site Gizmodo included the quote among other famous quotes often attributed to Gandhi but that were not actually said by him. Gizmodo traces the quote to a similar statement made by Indian philosopher Bara Dada in the mid-1920s that says, Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians, you are not like him.
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