Okay, maybe he wasn't. I happen to really like Gandhi too. Who doesn't? But Mahatma was far from perfect, so here's a little story...
Ghandi's wife died of pneumonia. Before she died, everyone (including their son) was begging Gandhi to let her use penicillin to combat the infection but he refused to allow it. Said it was up to God to do with her life what he will.
Eventually she died from the pneumonia and Gandhi said that God was testing him.
That's not what makes him a jerk though.
What makes him a jerk is that later, Gandhi himself contacted malaria. He suffered for a few weeks stating again that his life was in God's hands and refused treatment.
But praying didn't fight the disease which I guess changed his mind and he started the treatment. In a little while, he was all better.
Even great humans are still only human.
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