“The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.”
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Probable attribution
This saying is widely associated with Mahatma Gandhi, but the attribution is not supported by a reliable primary source.
Likely origin: Attributed to Gandhi's 'An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth' (1927), on his early impression of the Bible; not verbatim-confirmed to the primary here.
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An honest religious life leaves room for the parts that don't move you, and even for stretches of plain disbelief. Admitting that a revered text fell flat, rather than faking reverence, is often what keeps a later faith genuine instead of merely borrowed.
When to use it
- A teenager raised in the church admits the sermons leave her cold and starts asking her own questions.
- A reader slogs through a classic everyone praises and quietly concludes it just isn't for him.
- A new convert lets himself voice the doubts he'd been hiding, and his belief steadies for it.