Someone said to Murshid, seeing him to be a religious man from the East, that it is Christianity which is the cause of all the progress in the Western world, and it is the absence of Christianity which is the root of the downfall of the East.
The Murshid answered, “No, it is the Christ spirit which is keeping us back from material progress, and it is the lack of Christianity in the West which has helped you to progress so materially.”
Wow – what a neatly flipped perpsective coin, handed back to the unususpecting know-it-all. So profound, I am grateful the teaching was not simply left with the so-called Christian.
Yes, it is both a wonderful reflection upon ‘Christianity’ but also a very deft way of turning straw into gold.