Impromptu theology lecture with my Sikh Uber driver who started peppering me with questions about the differences between Christian sects. He couldn't understand why a monotheistic religion would opt for a thousand variations on a theme. "But God is One", he'd interject.
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Yes I definitely think they try to use it in Western contexts to stress differences from those freakish Hindus with their crazy beliefs.
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Technically they are more monotheistic than your average Hindu but Sikh monotheism is definitely not like Semitic monotheism. For example instead of rejecting Hindu Gods there are many references to them in Guru Granth Sahib.
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Sikh theologians who want to push the monotheism angle will say that they were considered admirable human beings but not divine. I don't know enough to be sure either way.
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I married an Indian American Sikh who I met here. We never had a Temple wedding, just a court wedding and then a Gurudwara wedding at her parent's request. I tried very hard to come with warm, fuzzy feeling for the faith but honestly the strident fundamentalists was a turnoff.
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It also didn't help that when we were visiting a Gurudwara in Delhi during an India trip I took my two daughters to a Gurdwara and in their excitement at feeding the fish in the pond there their head covering slipped exposing their hair.
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A security guard came running and started abusing us using swear words. I told my wife that it reminded me of a scene from the Taliban in Afghanistan and it ended my interest in the Sikh religion and going to Gurdwaras.
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