The Religion of Kings

If then I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'Oh, yes, I am a Christian.' . . . But negatively I can tell you that much of what passes as Christianity is a negation of the Sermon on the Mount . . . And please mark my words, I am not speaking of the present moment of the Christian conduct. I am speaking of the Christian belief, of Christianity as it is understood in the West. . . . Christianity became disfigured when it went to the West. It became the religion of kings.

-Gandhi, 1927