What would you do if ...

[puzzled]

1. your sibling or child left Sikhi and became atheist or converted to another faith

2. your sibling or child wanted to marry a non Sikh e.g Christian, Muslim, Hindu 

Would you try and convince them not to? break all relations with them? accept it?  or something else ... 

[mahandulai]

16 hours ago, puzzled said:

1. your sibling or child left Sikhi and became atheist or converted to another faith

2. your sibling or child wanted to marry a non Sikh e.g Christian, Muslim, Hindu 

Would you try and convince them not to? break all relations with them? accept it?  or something else ... 

do what you would do

[puzzled]

46 minutes ago, mahandulai said:

do what you would do

I think I would just accept them!  Would be Interesting to know what other people would do ...

[Guest jigsaw_puzzled_singh]

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Would you try and convince them not to? break all relations with them? accept it?  or something else ..

"or something else" ????  You've listed a lot of options and apart from murdering them I don't know what "else" there is ?

Talking of honour murders, we do hear lots of stories coming from the Pakistani community and one thing we know for sure is that it is perfectly safe for a sikh boy to take a pakistani girlfriend. If you do, and her family find out, statistics have shown that 99.9% of the time they will kill the girl and nothing will happen to you. You're safe. Happy days.

[Preeet]

Id ask them what part of Sikh confuses them, and then tell them its okay to not have the answers for everything, theres no rush. As for the marriage prashan, Id probs tell them its safer to marry a fellow Sikh & keep trust in paath.. It says in paath (please forgive me for mistakes):

So a marriage with a follower of Sikhi is good for a Sikh. Since both would believe in gurbani.. & look, it says 'supreme miseries' above, Im sure marriage problems can be solved with gurbani too.

[puzzled]

1 hour ago, Preeet said:

Id ask them what part of Sikh confuses them, and then tell them its okay to not have the answers for everything, theres no rush. As for the marriage prashan, Id probs tell them its safer to marry a fellow Sikh & keep trust in paath.. It says in paath (please forgive me for mistakes):

So a marriage with a follower of Sikhi is good for a Sikh. Since both would believe in gurbani.. & look, it says 'supreme miseries' above, Im sure marriage problems can be solved with gurbani too.

But what if they still don't listen and end up marrying a non sikh     or end up converting to another religion,  would you accept them? 

[Preeet]

53 minutes ago, puzzled said:

But what if they still don't listen and end up marrying a non sikh     or end up converting to another religion,  would you accept them? 

As a loved one, probably. For dharmic advise, no lol.

[Guest GuptSingh]

I would try to convince them otherwise, then disown them straight away if they follow through in either scenario. But that could just be the immature and naive side of me speaking, given I am at quite a young age.

[Guest Pure Races]

On ‎9‎/‎6‎/‎2018 at 12:41 PM, puzzled said:

But what if they still don't listen and end up marrying a non sikh     or end up converting to another religion,  would you accept them? 

I would keep contact with them, just to ensure that their future children will have some link to their roots and religion.

But I would be saddened. As muliticulturalism, and multiracialism, is on the rise. It will create a cultureless, uniform, boring, and easily controllable society. 

I think ppl should stick to their own castes, cultures, and races. Even if we educate and demand that our kids do this. About 5% will still mix out. And that is fine, as evolution likes diversity, and new blood helps makes sure that we don't become too closely related and in risk of genetic diseases like certain races have. Such as TaySachs that is mostly prevalent in the Jewish community, cytic fibrosis in Caucasians. 

However, if we say a little diversity is good, there will be 50%+ mixing in the pop.  So if we want people to listen to our message, it should be more conservative then our desired outcome. 

Mixing is bad, because we lose culture every generation. Suppose an English and indian marry. They will teach their child English and Panjabi lets say. Then what if their child marries a Spanish-Chinese. You cant possibly teach ur child, four languages, with any fluency. Even if you did, lot of culture such as food, and eithics would get lost, each generation. Diversity means having different ppl. 

[Guest Sat]

On 9/6/2018 at 12:03 AM, puzzled said:

1. your sibling or child left Sikhi and became atheist or converted to another faith

2. your sibling or child wanted to marry a non Sikh e.g Christian, Muslim, Hindu 

Would you try and convince them not to? break all relations with them? accept it?  or something else ... 

Guru Nanak taught that there Is no religion

 

No Hindu, no Muslim, only One.