Perhaps you're confusing Sikhs with the same group the "Get Osama" crowd confused this man with, or is your sarcasm closing tag missing...?
After all, they are a militant, fundamentalist religion who worship a book.
Perhaps you're confusing Sikhs with the same group the "Get Osama" crowd confused this man with, or is your sarcasm closing tag missing...?
You know . . . I can understand why a newbie might take this post the wrong way. What I don't understand is how someone who's been here as long as you have doesn't know where I'm coming from.
For over fourteen years I have championed Fundamentalist Protestants and defended them from all their critics, whether atheist or liturgical chrstian. I don't recall seeing you in any of those battles.
If you took a look at my screen name and assumed I'm some "liberal Jew" or "NWO Zionist" then forget it. I am a "redneck" from the rural Upper South, a former chrstian who has been a Noachide for 23 years now. I live two hours from the absolute closest Orthodox Jewish community. I am the number one opponent of higher Biblical criticism and evolution on this board, and I will not allow anyone to accuse them of "bibliolatry" because they believe that G-d cannot lie or err and that all the Bible is therefore by necessity without any mistake of any kind whatsoever.
I was paying the sikhs a compliment, although they're in the wrong religion. They are militant and fundamentalist (they carry swords!) and they literally worship a book, which Fundamentalist Protestants are so often accused of doing. So I was basically expressing my disbelief that a member of this community could be a freaking liberal.
Now do you understand?
Unfortunately, there is such a thing as "bibliolatry" in the Fundamentalist Protestant community and it is widespread. But it does NOT consist of believing that every word that G-d speaks must be true, because G-d cannot make mistakes!
This weekend Jews will observe the greatest holiday in all the universe, Simchat Torah. They will dance with the holy Torah scrolls and kiss them, culminating in finishing Deuteronomy and then beginning Genesis all over again. That, my friend, is thumpin' the Bible. Most Fundamentalist Protestants are pikers in comparison.