Dear Randip Singh Ji,
Thank you for your reply! Just one question, what do you mean when you say "Sant/Baba" in terms of Sikhism being skewed?
Who is saying that it is disgrace if Punjabi sikh girl marries a Black sikh Guy?
The reason people Don't like sikh Girls marrying non sikh guys because a very large majority of them end up converting to their husbands faith and raise non sikh children.Now you cannot expect sikhs to appreciate this
Why?
Are we Muslims that get upset and angry when 'one of ours' converts to another faith?
Or are we Hindus who segregate and diffirentiate the human race?
Or are we Christians who belive that those who do not believe as we do will go to hell?
No no my freind we are Sikh, who see the oneness of the universe. What does it matter if your kids choose another faith?
It does matter to a religion.imagine if in 18th century instead of sacrificing sikhs would had accepted islam and refuse to fight by saying that sufism is so close to islam
we should convert to it islam.Then this beautiful Religion would have never reached 21st century.
Tell me Dear lee if another generation of sikhs would never come then Sikhism will surely die.If It has to die then why the hell we are fighting all over the world for our rights.
Also lee ji I want to tell you that in entire sikh history sikhs always had harsh attitude to people who left sikhism Either out greed out of greed or anything.
While we always have high regards for people who never left sikhism and gave sacrifice for it.If you think this attitude is going to change then it is not going to happen
Then that is a sad thing my freind. Do you not see that love of the path above love of God is not a good thing?
Personaly for me the path is just a path, one of many to take, it suits me which is why I follow it, it may not suit others, so out of love, as God is all, then let them follow whichever path they like.
Dear Lee
First I want to read this a quote which I read worldsikhnews.com
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Sikhism developed into an independent religion. A new religion always produces a new nation. Guru Gobind Singh formalized the Sikhs as a distinct nation, vested it with an ever- ascending morale and inexhaustible energy and launched it into time towards the goal of sovereignty. The Guru taught his Sikhs that sovereignty is necessary for the progress of religion and people, divorced from religion, are always treaded down. Sikhism faced as much hostility from Hinduism as from Islam. Enmity between religions is natural and permanent. The law of “struggle for survival” applies to religions as well as living organisms. When a religion expands, expansion being a mode of survival, it encroaches on the territory of some other religion and then conflict is inevitable.
Brotherly coexistence between different religions is a myth. The preaching of brotherhood between religions is useful for the peace and stability of society. But it is only palliative. It rather plants confusion in the minds of people and disables them to understand and face reality.
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Love of the path is very important .If you Don't love that Path and don't try preserve it then my friend It will vanish 50-100 years.By hook or crook Other Religions will assilimate it.
Tell me Dear lee How many lovely Paths to God were started in India.But unfortunately most of them assimilated in Hinduism or islam.Only sikhism and few others are able to make it to 21st century.And if today and tommorow's generation don't preserve it then it will meet the same fate what many other paths to god met
Whether Sikhi as a dharma disapears from the world I simply cannot say, so how can you claim that in 50-100 years it will be gone, assimilated by other religoins? Can you then see into the future?
For who care about sikhism it does matter to them.It means all the sacrifices that sikhs were giving were total waste and there should not had been any conflict with islam or other religions.may be for world it does not matter because we are too small.What would it matter if there where no longer any Sikhs in 100 years time?
No my friend I do not find this disturbing because it contains some harsh truth. As I have said I find it disturbing because it seems to run counter to the Sikhi I know. Can you for example find any Bani to back up the salient facts? Those being:
So in essance you are unable to answer my last question, other than to further recite, it does matter?
Ok, hold the phone people. Lets not get carried away here.
If a black girl marries a Sikh boy its ok? But if a Sikh girl marries a black guy its a disgrace?
Get your frikin priorities straight
I understand what your feelings are as I'm sort of having them too. But I say as long as both of you are comfortable with each other and aren't ashamed to be together then, I don't see why not.I've know this guy for 2 years and have fallen in love with him. We go out do things together and have even spoken about marriage. The thing is I've never meet none of his friend nor family member. What I would like to ask.. Is it even possible for him to marry a black girl?? Would his family even accept me. Or I'm i setting myself up for serious disappointment.
Any advice appreciated....