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From: "Atheist Society" <**********@hotmail.com>
To: ***********@hotmail.com
Subject: Dear Ali we have a problem, please help!
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 20:40:30 +0000
Dear Ali, please help us. We were very impressed with your website
and agreed that religion in general is no longer needed, we can all
be humanistic and live in peace and harmony. We are in the process of
making a website which will hopefully help to destroy the religious
doctrines which divide humanity. We were doing great with knocking
out Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Baha'i, even Buddhism but
we have gotten very stuck with Sikhism. This religion is (to put it
nicely) "a big pain in the ass" (Please pardon the language) We have
only found one site which tries (very poorly) to argue that even this
religion is not needed, but the argument is irrational and very
unscientific unlike the very rational arguments you use. When we read
the following from your website, we found what you said to be
amazingly interesting:
"Doubt Everything Find Your Own Light."
"Last Words
Dear friend, if you look for meaning in life, don’t look for it in
religions; don’t go from one cult to another or from one guru to the
next. You can expend all your life or look for eternity and will find
nothing but disappointment and disillusionment. Look instead in
service to humanity. You will find “meaning” in your love for other
human beings. You can experience God when you help someone who needs
your help. The only truth that counts is the love that we have for
each other. This is absolute and real. The rest is mirage, fancies of
human imagination and fallacies of our own making." By Ali Sina
Why is this interesting? Because we found this religion of Sikhism to
be in agreement with you! This is why we have a problem. We tried to
look at their holy text (Adi Granth) but didnt find the usual
absurdities we found in the other religious books. In fact its
refreshingly inspiring and very good!? Maybe you can have some better
luck. We tried to visit a couple of websites and got more of a shock.
Did you know that they believed in Democracy, freedom of speech,
choice, expression, freedom of religion, pluralism, human rights,
equality between men and women, equality of all people regardless of
race, religion, caste, creed, status etc. 300 years before the
existance of the USA! Theirs is the only religion which says in their
religious scriptures that women are equal in every respect to men.
They even had women soldiers leading armies in to battle against "you
know who" (The usual suspects - Muslims!) Their history is a proud
one, they fought in both World Wars. Even Hitler praised them for
their bravery and Aryan heritage!
Dear Ali, this religion is hard for us to try and criticise but you
are an expert and may find some faults overlooked by us. In their
holy book, there is a round earth, water is made from chemical
elements, there is even mention of the evoution process, big bang and
life on other planets! This is pretty crazy and amazing stuff, who
would have thought that these New York taxi drivers (There are lots
of Sikh taxi drivers in NY) would have such an amzing faith? We read
up some information of what Bertrand Russell had to say about
Sikhism, this is the man who destroyed Christianity (same applies to
Islam and Judaism) and exposed its absurdities, but even this great
man got stuck when it came to Sikhism! In fact he gave up and said
"that if some lucky men survive the onslaught of the third world war
of atomic and hydrogen bombs, then the Sikh religion will be the only
means of guiding them.
Russell was asked that he was talking about the third world war, but
isn't this religion capable of guiding mankind before the third world
war?
In reply, Russell said, "Yes, it has the capability, but the Sikhs
have not brought out in the broad daylight, the splendid doctrines of
this religion which has come into existence for the benefit of the
entire mankind. This is their greatest sin and the Sikhs cannot be
freed of it."
Please bear in mind that Bertrand Russell was a great philosopher and
free thinker. We have been trying for weeks now to find a way to
fairly and rationally criticize and find fault with this religion but
have failed. We even found out that there are many people converting
to this religion in the USA and Europe as well as Russia (Mostly well
educated and affluent white people). We tried to find some of their
literature and see what kind of claims they make, but unfortunatley
they have no missionary material as they do not have missionsaries!
People become Sikh by learning usually by chance or by coming in to
contact with them. They are currently the 5th biggest religion in the
world and growing quite fast in the west and Russia.
Please help us as we are stuck, to give you an example of they are
all about we found the following websites:
http://www.sikhnet.com (This is a pretty good site and helpful)
http://www.hope.at/sikhism (This site is very easy to follow, check
it out, they have a Womans section and a Martyrs section, it looks
like that you are not the only one trying to expose the falseness of
Islam, Sikhs scholars did it hundreds of years ago and got killed for
it!)
http://www.sikhs.org (This is the site that was on CNN when Sikhs in
the USA were mistaken for Arabs and Middle Easterners and were
attacked by mindless morons)
Please help us out, we cant make our website about religion being the
cause of war and disharmony when we have this one and only religion
which makes a hell of a lot of sense! lol (I thought Atheism had all
the answers but were kind of stuck now.)
We look forward to hearing from you, we respect your great views and
want to promote them to everyone, thank you for your time, take care.
Dr. John Smith
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