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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Sikh</strong> <strong>Bulletin</strong> hwV-swvx 537 June-July 2005<br />
much effort they have given to incorporate it in their<br />
lives. It allows people to interpret the Guru Granth<br />
Sahib for themselves and with increasing awareness<br />
and understanding, the person will gain greater<br />
knowledge of the "divine" words of the Gurus, who<br />
were in direct communication with God and wrote<br />
what God told them in the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji.<br />
• <strong>Sikh</strong>ism is the only religion where the Scripture<br />
is written by the prophet of the religion who was<br />
in divine communication with God, out of all the<br />
otherworldly religions whose scriptures were written<br />
much later by other people.<br />
• <strong>Sikh</strong>ism is truly a religion that has broken down<br />
barriers between religions, to show the world that,<br />
"anyone" can reach God by immersing themselves<br />
in His love. That is why Hindu and Muslim saints’<br />
divine hymns from God are also recorded in Guru<br />
Granth Sahib Ji. <strong>Sikh</strong> Gurus are not only honoring<br />
the achievement of these Saints throughout time, but<br />
are sending a message to the world. <strong>Sikh</strong>ism is not<br />
the property of those who are born in Punjab or to<br />
<strong>Sikh</strong> families. It is a religion for all of humanity,<br />
men and women. Let us not forget the entire<br />
universe.<br />
Atheist Society Writes About <strong>Sikh</strong>ism. By John Smith<br />
Dear Ali, please help us. We were very impressed with your<br />
website and agreed that religion in general is no longer<br />
needed; we can all be humanistic and live in peace and<br />
harmony. We are in the process of making a website which<br />
will hopefully help to destroy the religious doctrines which<br />
divide humanity. We were doing great with knocking out<br />
Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Baha'i, even<br />
Buddhism but we have gotten very stuck with <strong>Sikh</strong>ism. This<br />
religion is (to put it nicely) "a big pain in the ass" (Please<br />
pardon the language) We have only found one site which<br />
tries (very poorly) to argue that even this religion is not<br />
needed, but the argument is irrational and very unscientific<br />
unlike the very rational arguments you use.<br />
When we read the following from your website, we found<br />
what you said to be amazingly interesting: "Doubt<br />
Everything Find Your Own Light." "Last Words Dear friend,<br />
if you look for meaning in life, don’t look for it in religions;<br />
don’t go from one cult to another or from one guru to the<br />
next. You can expend all your life or look for eternity and<br />
will find nothing but disappointment and disillusionment.<br />
Look instead in service to humanity. You will find<br />
“meaning” in your love for other human beings. You can<br />
experience God when you help someone who needs your<br />
help. <strong>The</strong> only truth that counts is the love that we have for<br />
each other. This is absolute and real. <strong>The</strong> rest is mirage,<br />
fancies of human imagination and fallacies of our own<br />
making." By Ali Sina. Why is this interesting Because we<br />
found this religion of <strong>Sikh</strong>ism to be in agreement with you!<br />
This is why we have a problem. We tried to look at their<br />
holy text (Adi Granth) but didn’t find the usual absurdities<br />
we found in the other religious books. In fact it’s<br />
refreshingly inspiring and very good! Maybe you can<br />
have some better luck.<br />
We tried to visit a couple of websites and got more of a<br />
shock. Did you know that they believed in Democracy,<br />
freedom of speech, choice, expression, freedom of religion,<br />
pluralism, human rights, equality between men and<br />
women, equality of all people regardless of race, religion,<br />
caste, creed, status etc. 300 years before the existence of<br />
the USA <strong>The</strong>irs is the only religion which says in their<br />
religious scriptures that women are equal in every respect to<br />
men. <strong>The</strong>y even had women soldiers leading armies into<br />
battle against "you know who" (<strong>The</strong> usual suspects -<br />
Muslims!) <strong>The</strong>ir history is a proud one; they fought in both<br />
World Wars. Even Hitler praised them for their bravery and<br />
Aryan heritage! Dear Ali, this religion is hard for us to try<br />
and criticize but you are an expert and may find some faults<br />
overlooked by us. In their holy book, there is a round<br />
earth, water is made from chemical elements, and there is<br />
even mention of the evolution process, big bang and life<br />
on other planets! This is pretty crazy and amazing stuff,<br />
who would have thought that these New York taxi drivers<br />
(<strong>The</strong>re are lots of <strong>Sikh</strong> taxi drivers in NY) would have such<br />
an amazing faith We read up some information of what<br />
Bertrand Russell had to say about <strong>Sikh</strong>ism, this is the man<br />
who destroyed Christianity (same applies to Islam and<br />
Judaism) and exposed its absurdities, but even this great<br />
man got stuck when it came to <strong>Sikh</strong>ism! In fact he gave up<br />
and said "that if some lucky men survive the onslaught of<br />
the third world war of atomic and hydrogen bombs, then<br />
the <strong>Sikh</strong> religion will be the only means of guiding them.<br />
Russell was asked that he was talking about the third world<br />
war, but isn't this religion capable of guiding mankind<br />
before the third world war In reply, Russell said, "Yes, it<br />
has the capability, but the <strong>Sikh</strong>s have not brought out in<br />
the broad daylight, the splendid doctrines of this religion<br />
which has come into existence for the benefit of the entire<br />
mankind. This is their greatest sin and the <strong>Sikh</strong>s cannot be<br />
freed of it."<br />
Please bear in mind that Bertrand Russell was a great<br />
philosopher and free thinker. We have been trying for weeks<br />
now to find a way to fairly and rationally criticize and find<br />
fault with this religion but have failed. We even found out<br />
that there are many people converting to this religion in the<br />
USA and Europe as well as Russia (Mostly well educated<br />
and affluent white people). We tried to find some of their<br />
literature and see what kind of claims they make, but<br />
unfortunately they have no missionary material as they do<br />
not have missionaries! People become <strong>Sikh</strong> by learning<br />
usually by chance or by coming into contact with them.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y are currently the 5th biggest religion in the world and<br />
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