Sikhism and Sacred book of Sikhs;Guru Granth Sahib
Sikhism and Sacred book of Sikhs;Guru Granth Sahib
Bertrand Russel On Granth Sahib & Sikhism
Bertrand
said “If some lucky men survive the onslaught of the third world war of
atomic and hydrogen bombs, the SIKH religion will be the ONLY means of
guiding them.
It has the capability, but Sikhs have not
brought-out, in broad day light, the splendid doctrines of their
religion, which has come into existence for
the benefit of entire mankind.”
Western Atheist’s views
We
were doing great with knocking out Christianity, Judaism, Islam,
Hinduism, Baha’i, even Buddhism but we have gotten very stuck with
Sikhism.
…….. Look instead in service to humanity. You will find
“meaning” in your love for other human beings. You can experience God
when you help someone who needs your help.
Why
is this interesting? Because we found this religion of Sikhism to be in
agreement with this! This is why we have a problem. We tried to look at
their holy text (Adi Granth) but didn’t find the usual absurdities we
found in the other religious books. In fact its refreshingly inspiring
and very good!
Did you know that they believed in Democracy, freedom
of speech, choice, expression, freedom of religion, pluralism, human
rights, equality between men and women, equality of all people
regardless of race, religion, caste, creed, status etc. 300 years before
the existence of the USA! Theirs is the only religion which says in
their religious scriptures that women are equal in every respect to men.
They even had women soldiers leading armies in to battle against “you
know who” (The usual suspects – Muslims!)
Mata Bhag Kaur, was a Sikh woman who led Sikh soldiers against the Mughals in 1705. She was an exceptionally skilled warrior on the battlefield
Their history is a proud one, they fought in both World Wars. Even Hitler praised them for their bravery and Aryan heritage!
Please
bear in mind that Bertrand Russell was a great philosopher and free
thinker. We have been trying for weeks now to find a way to fairly and
rationally criticize and find fault with this religion but have failed.
We even found out that there are many people converting to this religion
in the USA and Europe as well as Russia (Mostly well educated and
affluent white people).
Bertrand Russell was a great philosopher and
free thinker and is said to have given Christianity (same applies to
Islam and Judaism) a body blow and exposed its absurdities; but even
this great man got stuck when it came to Sikhism! In fact he gave up and
said “that if some lucky men survive the onslaught of the third world
war of atomic and hydrogen bombs, then the Sikh religion will be the
only means of guiding them.” Russell was asked that he was talking about
the third world war, but isn’t this religion capable of guiding mankind
before the third world war? In reply, Russell said, “Yes, it has this
capability, but the Sikhs have not brought out in the broad daylight,
the splendid doctrines of this religion which has come into existence
for the benefit of the entire mankind. This is their greatest sin and
the Sikhs cannot be freed of it.
” What Bertrand was most impressed
with was that Sikhism does not have a doctrine of evangelism, that it
does not go out to try to subvert and convert. In some ways he thought
that Sikhs should go out and propagate their great faith.
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