Gandhi

In India, religion had become a vicious sign. Gandhi’s idea of God has no religion arose to rescue the perception of ‘God’ from narrow-mindedness and anger.

Goenawan Mohamad

August 8, 2022

“GOD has no religion,” Gandhi said. 

It is not surprising to find that in a country like India this phrase came from someone known as pious, wise, and just. Religion had become a vicious sign. So the idea arose to rescue the perception of ‘God’ from narrow-mindedness and anger.

Gandhi himself is tragic proof of this fate. Towards the end of January 1948, he was shot dead by Nathuram Godse, an adherent

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