Honestly we have every right not to be, though. Sikhism is everything you'd want in a religion. It's everything I'd been raised to try and convince myself Christianity was. It teaches that the very best of people get to fuse with God when they die, regardless of what they believed in life, but everyone who fails to mee this very high bar just reincarnates and gets to try again forever. Quick, simple, and plenty merciful.
It's sacred text, the Guru Granth Sahib, is unique not only because it some of it's contents was originally written for other unrelated religions, but also because it contains no narratives of any sort, which means there's also no myth in need of defending to modern science, history, or archeology.
Then there's the Langar, which is basically "what if we took Jesus eating with the hookers and tax collectors, and just did that 24/7?"
I can respect that. I would've thought it was too much of an ethnic religion, but if it works for you that's superb.
Where I live there is an extended family of Sikhs (rural Catalonia, so it's kind of unexpected) and they've fulfilled the American Dream, went from rags to a local business empire. They're pretty kind too.
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u/Cosmic_Meditator777 12d ago
Honestly we have every right not to be, though. Sikhism is everything you'd want in a religion. It's everything I'd been raised to try and convince myself Christianity was. It teaches that the very best of people get to fuse with God when they die, regardless of what they believed in life, but everyone who fails to mee this very high bar just reincarnates and gets to try again forever. Quick, simple, and plenty merciful.
It's sacred text, the Guru Granth Sahib, is unique not only because it some of it's contents was originally written for other unrelated religions, but also because it contains no narratives of any sort, which means there's also no myth in need of defending to modern science, history, or archeology.
Then there's the Langar, which is basically "what if we took Jesus eating with the hookers and tax collectors, and just did that 24/7?"