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The Christian menace to Sikhi in Canada


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4 minutes ago, puzzled said:

The church and mass in Punjab is like a dera   that's why people are attracted to it.  The pastas do massive shows where they take spirits out of people    this is one way how they draw the crowds in     u can see videos online. Theres a lot of exorcisms ate these gatherings with massive crowds watching.   then there also is a lot of singing/dancing and clapping involved.  These christian gatherings are very theatrical and over the top. A lot of superstitions involved as well which indian people love    love demons possessing people etc. 

Churches are like deras in punjab  

Caste and poverty play a role in it aswell as these missionaries offer land and medicine,   but it's far bigger than just that. You would be surprised with the number of bhamans, jatts etc   that become christians. We have a Christian family in my dads pind that are sahotas which is a jatt second name. It's just another dera for these people. 

Thank you for confirming what I have mentioned. 

It makes me think about how some of how people became Sikhs in the first place.

There were multiple holocausts against our people which practically decimated us.

I suspect that the number of Sikhs who are descended from Guruji 's time is miniscule and that the bulk of Sikhs probably became Sikhs afterwards because they look and see who is the horse to back.

This group of people probably have no loyalty and probably see Christianity as a better bet.

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14 minutes ago, Ranjeet01 said:

I think there is this big thing about caste oppression but I think it is something else.

It is pure opportunism .

I posted something earlier which I feel is pertinent with an attachment, so it's awaiting clearing.

But I do feel what certain people do (albeit subconsciously) is to downplay and disregard serious caste issues in our panth, probably out of hardcore cognitive dissonance. It's like some english people in the UK who get upset at the mere mention of there being systemic racism going on in the country, and then go into overdrive to deny it (or play it down when this isn't possible.)

We should all know (by now) that ignoring issues only makes them grow and spread and makes problems even worse (like with grooming). It's on all of us to confront these things head on, and not take the easy route of denial. 

Certain people need to take more pride in the panth and have better expectations of it than being some backwards cesspit of inequality. Sikhi was sent here to guide humanity, if we don't even strive for its ideals (which have never been represented as easy even by Gurus and others like Bhai Gurdas), how are we surprised that people convert out of economic desperation or as an attempt to receive more humane treatment by the society around them? Sure some of it is opportunism, but to ignore the rampant, long term appalling treatment  of certain members of our panth by others within, and how this will naturally cause effects is a travesty of the highest order. And it's not something really complicated to grasp either. 

Not everything our families tell us is good. 

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17 minutes ago, Ranjeet01 said:

Thank you for confirming what I have mentioned. 

It makes me think about how some of how people became Sikhs in the first place.

There were multiple holocausts against our people which practically decimated us.

I suspect that the number of Sikhs who are descended from Guruji 's time is miniscule and that the bulk of Sikhs probably became Sikhs afterwards because they look and see who is the horse to back.

This group of people probably have no loyalty and probably see Christianity as a better bet.

Iv seen punjabi christian exorcism videos on YouTube    halirious!  They have massive crowds watching as well. Exorisms are a massive puller for the indian church    that's how they sell their religions to others       in india   everyone thinks they are possessed or their husband or kids are possessed    literally everyone believes they are possessed     and the church offer exorisms   it's how they advertise their religion.  

One of the main thing the pastors offer is freeing u from evil spirits    even the posters state that      that is enough to draw in massive crowds.

 

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18 minutes ago, dallysingh101 said:

I posted something earlier which I feel is pertinent with an attachment, so it's awaiting clearing.

But I do feel what certain people do (albeit subconsciously) is to downplay and disregard serious caste issues in our panth, probably out of hardcore cognitive dissonance. It's like some english people in the UK who get upset at the mere mention of there being systemic racism going on in the country, and then go into overdrive to deny it (or play it down when this isn't possible.)

We should all know (by now) that ignoring issues only makes them grow and spread and makes problems even worse (like with grooming). It's on all of us to confront these things head on, and not take the easy route of denial. 

Certain people need to take more pride in the panth and have better expectations of it than being some backwards cesspit of inequality. Sikhi was sent here to guide humanity, if we don't even strive for its ideals (which have never been represented as easy even by Gurus and others like Bhai Gurdas), how are we surprised that people convert out of economic desperation or as an attempt to receive more humane treatment by the society around them? Sure some of it is opportunism, but to ignore the rampant, long term appalling treatment  of certain members of our panth by others within, and how this will naturally cause effects is a travesty of the highest order. And it's not something really complicated to grasp either. 

Not everything our families tell us is good. 

No one downplaying caste but it is not the only factor.

 

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22 minutes ago, Ranjeet01 said:

I think there is this big thing about caste oppression but I think it is something else.

It is pure opportunism .

Of course it's something else Ranjeet. The discussion taking place here among a couple of posters about caste is like someone that's never been to Portugal delivering a lecture about The Hills and Lakes of Portugal. The guy delivering the lecture needs to visit Portugal and the people talking about caste here need to get out there into the pends and cities of Doaba and see what's happening on the ground. There are Jatts, Tarkhans, Khatris, Churus and Chamars all becoming Christian (btw many of them still retain their kes and turban after conversion because the Christians preach the Nazerite gospel to them) and yet, even after conversion, each of those groups still only marry into their own groups etc. The grouping system (or caste - whatever you want to call it) remains intact even after they become Christian.  None of this has anything (hardly) to do with caste. The few here still talking about it are embarrassing themselves with their lack of knowledge of what's happening on the ground.  We all knew and accepted that the one trick pony Dallysingh101 was always going to take the discussion in that direction but the rest of the posters should have been intelligent enough not to fall in his trap.

I started this thread a long time ago hoping it would provoke some serious intelligent thinking and, if you look back at the first couple of pages, I've pointed out a few times that the Christians are finding it easy in Punjab because we, the Punjabis, are just too unintelligent to figure simple things out. Nothing to do with caste...….especially as the new mass of converts in Punjab are mostly high ranking Jatts and Khatris. It has everything to do with education and intelligence. When you have a society in which 99.9% of the decent schools in the state are Christian schools, it paints a picture in simple minds that being a Christian is associated with higher intelligence. And this brings us to the wider subject of intelligence itself :

The late great comedian once insulted his live show audience by calling them brainless dogs. They were laughing at his jokes and they found them really funny but Bill Hicks was a man that demanded more than that. He knew they were genuinely laughing because they genuinely thought the jokes funny but he also knew that they were not fully understanding the long preamble that was setting up the jokes and to Bill, that was more important than the punchline itself. So, he likened them to dogs watching a magician perform a magic card trick. The intelligent mind goes to a magic trick show knowing that the whole point is to be deceived. He knows he's about to be duped and simply finds it entertaining watching the magician dupe him. To the brainless dog however, the 7 of spades and the jack of hearts are both nothing but images on a piece of card. They watch the trick and they like it but they are not being duped because they don't even have the basic understanding to know that there is deceit and dupeness happening. Same with the masses in Punjab. They are not being deceived because they don't have the mental faculty to understand deceit. Like Bill Hick's brainless audience and the Dog watching the magic trick show they are simply appreciating and then swallowing everything that is thrown at them. To them, it's a simple question of maths that adds up. To them, the equation that makes sense is this:  Best schools are Christian + Rich western world is Christian + Nazerite gospels preach not cutting hair = Successful life. No dupeness going on. It's just that Bill Hicks's proverbial 'brainless dogs' reside in the state of Punjab.

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1 hour ago, Ranjeet01 said:

I think there is this big thing about caste oppression but I think it is something else.

It is pure opportunism .

If it's not caste that's used as a marker to discriminate, it's something else, such as how many acres zameen someone owns, or their skin tone, or the size of their 4x4. It's just never ending over there.

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3 minutes ago, MisterrSingh said:

If it's not caste that's used as a marker to discriminate, it's something else, such as how many acres zameen someone owns, or their skin tone, or the size of their 4x4. It's just never ending over there.

There is an underlying problem there. It affects people along the social spectrum. 

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