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dalbirk ji

I don't quite have enough time to read the entire article you posted, I have only read a quarter of it and the chances of me understanding it all are very slim. I get what the writer is saying with all of the hyper-rational stuff, but I don't think the person has quite understood where most of the people are coming from. They don't believe that reincarnation is wrong because they wish to make religion scientific or something, but quite frankily is there no possibility whatsoever that the reason there are references to reincarnation is because it would help Hindus to relate to something. Reincarnation may have been used because it refers to ideas which are most easily understood through the idea of reincarnation, without necessarily claiming reincarnation to be the truth. I've read quotes from the Guru Granth Sahib Ji that even refer to hell, yet for some reason we don't believe in hell (in the sense of it being a place for evil people to go to) yet we believe in the references to reincarnation?

I don't think the Guru's referred to reincarnation to prevent offense to people as claimed in the article, but I do think it was used to deal with the issues of that time, the issues being that the Hindu people who read the Guru Granth Sahib Ji would have found it easier to understand the idea if there are references to things that are familiar to them.