Gandhi once remarked something to the effect that he would
have been Christian except for all the “Christians” he had met.
The failure of people of
religion to model their beliefs is not one confined to Christianity; it can be
argued, however, that the responsibility of those who profess a particular
faith, at some point, is bound to their modeling of it. This begs the question then, should a
religion be judged by the quality and behaviour of its followers?
Concerning the perceived shortcomings of members of the
Christian religion, Mark Twain, in his autobiography, made the following
observation: “But who prays for Satan? Who in
eighteen centuries has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that
needed it most…”
