I always used to (half) joke that the reason I left Western Christianity was the uncompromising dogma about Jesus Christ being the only path to salvation. Nothing against Christ, but I would use Gandhi as the unimpeachable example: so one of the purest and loving human beings to ever live is in hell or purgatory if he didn’t accept Christ into his heart? That type of contradiction was unfathomable to me for people to ignore. Thus, I was touched when my child went to her first religious education class and it was located in the Gandhi room, across from a library of scriptures from the Quran and the Tao and the Bhagavad Gita. It felt like squaring a circle and arriving home after many years away.”