Mohandas Gandhi on the Challenge of Religious Diversity

January 1, 1925

(Gandhi’s statement to a Baptist congregation in Cuttack)

If a person discards his country, his customs and his old customs and manners when he changes his religion, he becomes all the more unfit to gain a knowledge of God. For a change of religion means really a conversion of the heart. When there is a real conversion, the man’s heart grows. In my view your object in changing your religion should be to bring about the prosperity of your country.
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