Sikhism is no more the fifth-largest religion

[Guest]

Couple of months ago, Wikipedia page for Sikhism was edited. Instead of showing Sikhism as the fifth-largest global religion now it shows it as the ninth-largest religion. The fifth place has been taken by some "Folk religion". Sixth is Taoism, Seventh is some "Shinto" and Eighth "Falun Gong". (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_religious_groups#Medium-sized_religions)

[MisterrSingh]

Judaism has 17 million followers compared to our 28 mill, and look how they're running tings internationally! Oy vey, maybe they are the chosen people. ?

[jkvlondon]

I thought Taoism was a philosophy of life not a religion per se ...any clues ? and besides I thought during Communism years all religious practices were stopped ..so how come so high figures for China ?

[MisterrSingh]

23 minutes ago, 5akaalsingh said:

Yeah, that's good! The bad part is that Chinese "religions" founded in 1990s have more followers!

I wouldn't go as far to suggest those religions aren't genuine, or they lack some sort of legitimacy. The main reason for their high number of followers is possibly due to their generally higher population.

[Guest Jacfsing2]

There's a major problem with religions listed as 5-8, and that is it's a bunch of religions joined together, also you can combine those religious practices with any religion, not just that one, a good example is Shintoism, Folk religion, and Taoism which all allow their followers to mix and match with other religions, (the main one being Buddhism), also if we included the I don't know how many Vanjaria Sikhs our numbers would still be 5th place. If we were playing the same demographic numbers these religions were playing, then we could include that Hindu or that Christian that went to the Gurdwara once. Even if we were to do that our numbers at best would be 4th place, but we would most likely stay in 5th place. 

1 hour ago, MisterrSingh said:

Judaism has 17 million followers compared to our 28 mill, and look how they're running tings internationally! Oy vey, maybe they are the chosen people. ?

Judaism has one thing that gives them power, and that is that Christians are their ghulams,(Jerusalem is under their control), if you had 2 billion slaves and even if you were one person, you could rule a huge population. Heck their Pakhandi Baba named Jesus Ghadar Christ was a Jew who believed in Jewish ideology. The Varican City also has a lot of power for the same reason. Saudi Arabia also has lots of power for the same reason of owning a religious capital for outsiders. Heck, if we had the same benefits they have with an international religious capital which many people of other countries respect, Punjabis would be seen like Devtas and we would be seen as the supreme people; however, no such scenario exists. Let me just say if we had a city in Punjab with importance for outsiders, (like non-Punjabi/Subcontinental), such as Mecca, Vatican, Ganges, or Jeuralesum, then all of our demands would be met by tomorrow no questions asked, (heck we could ask for people to some otherwise irrational stuff and they'd still do it). 

[BhForce]

5 hours ago, 5akaalsingh said:

Instead of showing Sikhism as the fifth-largest global religion now it shows it as the ninth-largest religion.

Thanks for highlighting this. 

You people know what to do ... Log out of Sikhsangat.com, close the laptop, and get to making some babies!!

Just do it.

[MisterrSingh]

3 hours ago, Jacfsing2 said:

Heck their Pakhandi Baba named Jesus Ghadar Christ was a Jew who believed in Jewish ideology.

You know why you struggle with focusing on spirituality, curbing Kaam, etc? Because of nonsense like that in bold. You heap such incredible bhaar on yourself without having the kamaai to shoulder such words and opinions. You don't have to agree or like other faiths and their figureheads - i certainly don't when it comes to a few of them - but where do you get the cojones to speak of such figures in that way? 

[Kira]

15 minutes ago, BhForce said:

Thanks for highlighting this. 

You people know what to do ... Log out of Sikhsangat.com, close the laptop, and get to making some babies!!

Just do it.

[jkvlondon]

ORR.... get BOS to roll out parchaarik course to online form with residential for certain aspects like santhiya (or co-op with taksal classes)

[Guest Jacfsing2]

40 minutes ago, MisterrSingh said:

You know why you struggle with focusing on spirituality, curbing Kaam, etc? Because of nonsense like that in bold. You heap such incredible bhaar on yourself without having the kamaai to shoulder such words and opinions. You don't have to agree or like other faiths and their figureheads - i certainly don't when it comes to a few of them - but where do you get the cojones to speak of such figures in that way? 

+1 Every Mahapurukh has said the same thing, the greatest is Guru Sahib! Remember all these Pakhandis went to Harnaam Singh and touched his feet, not the other way around. This right here shows how even they ackwolegded that Sikhi is the only true religion. The greatness of being Sikh is what keeps me going, if I was a follower of any of these Pakhandis I don't know where I'd be going. Even Randhir Singh said in his book when he saw all those Jamdoots how they fear the power of Guru Sahib and anyone who was Sikh. Bhai Gurdas also said such "nonsense", as you claim that Sikhs were the best of the best, higher than Devtas and Devti. I'm a lowly Sikh, (probably one of the worst there is), and there's no way that I'm going to accept being lower spiritually to some deluded person like Muhammad or Jesus or even Moses, just on a non-Sikh level, the Dharmic faiths have their problems; however, their leaders actually tried to teach simran, (fake simran, but still a start), while in Christianity and Islam Simran is a ban.