The Sikh Religion Is Steeped In Man-Made Traditions And Prohibitions.
Too cramped for most people’s liking, yet it is a fast growing religion.
Marriages for instance, are mostly arranged by parents including proposals, even if someone is allowed to choose their partner. Their traditions don’t allow for anything personal much, to be decided between two people who would like to marry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anand_Karaj
This religion has many orders and decrees that prohibit certain freedoms. It is very strictly coded in certain laws passed down by certain religious leaders in the history of that religion that are somewhat rigid and imposed on all adherents of that faith. They have a very strict structure of what is expressed and how it is expressed.
There are a few amendments in the rules that Sikhs follow, by a few of the leading figures in their history at different times.
A Question On Quora.Com
If Sikhism is such a great religion then how come it did not spread beyond Punjab?
Originally Answered: Why didn’t Sikhism spread beyond Punjab?
“Reasons why Sikhism doesn’t spread beyond Punjab”
100 Million Dalits Were Ready to Become Sikh in 1930 But Sikh Leaders Said NO!
Janets Comments About This:
To my surprise some years ago, I learnt from a Christian Charity worker there are various Classes of people in India whereby a lot of discrimination goes on – giving favor and disfavor to fellowmen of their own county. There’s a lot of shunning and the Dalits are the most despised people of that country being “the poorest of the poor”…….therefore a Christian Charity who give lots of practical gifts like clean water and warm blankets, chicks for eggs, goats for milk, sheep for wool, and various vocational tools, directs all those gifts to the Dalits because they are the most needy and despised.
So it is not a good thing that the Leaders of the Sikhs did not allow these dear precious people to convert to their beliefs – in other words, they did not embrace them. The Christian Bible refers to that kind of behavior as Favoritism which is strongly discouraged.
The Christian Charity I mentioned believes in passionately serving the needy. They invite other Christians to share warmth and hope through these gifts and the Love of God – each field worker personally shows them the Love and Acceptance of Christ because these people have deep emotional needs as you can imagine?
In Australia, there are many of the Sikh people.
What I have witnessed and experienced with these people.
A Family Member has had very distressing major Health Issues from Medical Negligence of a Sikh MD/GP who gives only 2-3 Minute Appointments to All his Patients – for small things AND Big Things. He phoned him for only 2-3 minutes to report a Scan results for an Enlarged Liver – that has been caused from giving Anti-Pain Tablets for years and would not tell him to stop taking them OR offer anything else. Just leave him with pain (Chronic Nerve Pain from a Work injury 30 years ago) Do nothing about anything else, when his Stomach, digestive system and Bowel has been in a shocking state for over a week, he can hardly eat anything (very little) his body cannot handle even one small dose of that Anti-Pain Medication anymore – if he does try to take one, his whole body is physically in a state of protest – he has had night after night of broken sleep (keeps waking up repeatedly) AND the MD/GP left him to it saying “Leave it 5-6 Weeks, come get another Blood Test and Scan!” and flies off the phone to his next “2-3 Minute Appointment!” leaving him with important Unanswered Questions and leaving him in shock as well.
He has never expressed any Care or Concern for him (or anyone of his patients) He is one of those religious guys with a turban but he is a thorough Hypocrite – he really cares nothing for God or People, just Money and LOTS of it!) Who knows how many people he has possibly killed with his Medical Negligence and the only reason the Family Member goes to him is because he doesn’t have to wait a long time in the waiting room with back pain like he had to with a previous MD/GP. Quite honestly, I believe he doesn’t care if he lives or dies if he has plenty of other patients. That’s how bad he is. He may be religious (Seikh) but to me he is EVIL positively Evil. I showed more interest in his son for 10-15 mins once when he arrived on a New Bike to show his Dad one time. This GP/MP walked away very quickly (and dismissively) with his son, so rudely.
I almost fell over in shock when I saw him actually hug him – I didn’t think he had Any Feeling for ANYONE Only Money but at-least he has some for his son (because they’re related)
Honestly, he does not deserve to be called Indian because he does not have the manners, the respect or the heart of one like Good Friends who are Restaurant owners. But many of the Sikh People here are such Hypocrites – if you go to their Food Stores, they don’t bother to say hello and be friendly, I’ve found. They just serve you when they have to, and out you go without a “Hello or Goodbye” even though their Prices are Cheaper, their Manners are Rude.
One day I heard the Sikh Workers shouting at each-other in the back room when they didn’t know I was there. And one day, when I cautioned a Sikh guy about the Chinese Garlic they’re selling, he raised his voice abruptly at me and called me a liar. As a Natural Health Researcher, I gave the same Information to one of those guys in a different Store, and he got irritated at me, saying “What do you expect me to do!?” and said the Chinese Garlic are “Good Sellers and they would keep selling them!” and walked quickly away from me.
Wait a minute, I told him that garlic is treated with TOXIC BLEACH and he was not the least bit concerned.
Too Bad (doesn’t matter) they’ll sell them anyway, knowing they can make people sick if they have enough of them or they are Allergic to Chemicals. I could go on and say more but you get the picture?
The concerning thing is, in this country they have a False Public Image as Charity Workers, they are not.
They just Promote their Religion (very heavily and convert Australian people to it if they get half the chance.) Anyway, they are not like our Indian Restaurant Friends – they are a Friendly couple and Everyone likes to go there. They don’t have a False Streak in their body.
Also, I went with two close Friends to an Asian Restaurant we have been going to for Many Years. We usually go there for 4 Birthdays each year and other times. The lady who ran the Restaurant was really lovely, she used to Celebrate all her Customer’s Birthdays; they always had a big Generous Buffet Spread. Last time we went there, some Sikh Guys had taken over the Restaurant. When we came in the doorway and looked Very Disappointed to see everything had changed with New Management etc. the Owner came over towards us and abruptly said “You should be happy we’re here. You should be happy they’re not here anymore!” and he tried to tell us they had been Shut Down because they left food on the floor etc. Honestly, that did not describe the Restaurant Staff’s Standards we were accustomed to, and they let down their standards in some way, his description was exaggerated, derogatory, deformation and unpleasant. We came to Celebrate our Friend’s 81st Birthday and it was quite a shock – I can tell you. I remembered this just now and thought maybe you should know. Needless to say, we did not go back there – the prices were far too expensive anyway. Update: I phoned the Council, the Sikh men said they shut them down. Little did they know I have connections there. They reported to me “there is absolutely no record of that”…….I had not been there for a long time and was Sure there wouldn’t be!
Indian People generally blend in very well with our Culture here for decades but not the Sikh People, they are very Snobby. For example: their Truck Drivers will only go to a Service Station that is run by Sikhs, my Garden Guy said to me recently. He never has a bad word to say about Anyone, and he got angry about the way Sikhs behave towards us, when they are here in our Country because we are Good to let them come here. He is a Very Kind Gentle 64 year old man, and he was very upset about our Government letting so many of them come here. He even does some Free work for me sometimes and refuses to take any money from me.
Sorry Folks, I met a nice young man once and then a second person who is Sikh and thought they may be good people. I have written my experience with them and what a few other people know about them in Australia that is so concerning, I would not want you mixed up with them as a Follower and possibly as a Customer. They are Very Clicky and we’re Outsiders. I thought someone I knew years ago was being critical when I was shopping with her on one occasion. She quietly commented to me concerning a Worker “Oh he’s one of those Sikhs!” and avoided him. It so turns out he was Polite (I found on a different day) but she told me some time later her Neighbors were Sikh when she was young and reported strange things to her Parents after visiting their House several times, that made her Parents Cautious. She mentioned to me what you will read in the following paragraph.
Today I cited an article on Wikipedia titled Criticism of Sikhism. It reads:
Sikhism has often been criticized by non-Sikhs regarding texts, practice, and societal norms, but Sikhs and other scholars find these criticism to be flawed and based on a biased and poor understanding, especially of the multiple languages used in the Sikh scriptures. Most western scholars who attempted to interpret eastern religious texts, were missionaries. They could not overcome the bias they carried with them, irrespective of whether they were translating the Quran, Vedas, Puranas of the Guru Granth Sahib. Guru Nanak rejected ritualistic worshiping and encouraged belief in one true God, Waheguru. However the veneration and bowing to the Guru Granth Sahib, has often been interpreted by western scholars as akin to idolatry, observed by the Hindu faith, which defeats the ideology of Guru Nanak.
W H McLeod, a scholar and Christian missionary, considered a portion of the hagiographic Janamsakhis of the Sikh gurus, though popular among Sikhs, as stories with myth and miracles, discounting some entirely, considering some improbable, and some as merely possible, placing 87 of 124 sakhis in these categories. The remaining 37 he categorized as probable or established.[10] McLeod considered the Guru Nanak of the janam-sakhis was one “of legend and of faith, seen through the eyes of popular piety” decades after his death, distilling what he considered an accurate portrait of Guru Nanak in three paragraphs.[10] McLeod’s textual criticism, his empirical examination of genealogical and geographical evidence, examination of the consistency between the Sikh texts and their versions, philological analysis of historic Sikh literature, search for corroborating evidence in external sources and other critical studies have been influential popular among the Western academics and Indian scholars working outside India, but highly controversial within the Sikh community, and prompting a reaction similar to that of other faith communities.[10]
McLeod was also not content with the approach of expositions of Sikh scholars of the nineteenth century to leave questions unanswered on concepts such as nirgun (transcendent) and sagun (immanent) aspects of the divine (that God was transcendent while God’s phenomena were immanent), and how Nanak’s theological thought that God can and does communicate to every human being regularly, and how this communication can be “recognized, accepted and followed,” criticized as failing to provide a satisfactory, coherent answer about “how” this ongoing divine communication happens or can happen, which was “allowed to remain a mystery,” as according to the scholars of the time, in regards to the nirgun aspect, “there is nothing man can say of it” except when experienced in the “ultimate condition of absolute union.”[11]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Sikhism
Veneration means a great respect and reverence.
For example “the traditional veneration of Saints” in Catholicism.
Denotes a reverence, respect, worship, adoration, homage and exaltation.
Should we not be giving each one of those to God alone?
There was a mention in my research that Sikhs are taught to give equal respect to their “Gurus” they give to God that is actually placing them on equal footing with God Almighty (like Catholicism does with Mary) and you know what He says about that in His Word?
Here is a Link on How The Sikh Religion Formed
https://www.quora.com/How-was-the-Sikh-religion-formed
I Will Continue To Say More In This Article
Which Will Include Some Of Their Beliefs And Some Personal Interactions
That Maybe Should Be Passed On.
To be honest with you, I have personally found Some of these people to be Kind and Courteous and Most to be Aloof and Disengaged…..sometimes Rude and Abrupt…..that is not the impression I would like to leave with People. So Vain and Untouchable are some Religions who entice their Followers to consider themselves to be More Spiritual OR More Informed than “Other People”
Sad to say!
