Bertrand Russell was a great
philosopher and free thinker and is said to have given Christianity
(same applies to Islam and Judaism) a body blow and exposed its
absurdities; but even this great man got stuck when it came to Sikhism! In
fact he gave up and said "that if some lucky men survive the
onslaught of the third world war of atomic and hydrogen bombs, then the Sikh
religion will be the only means of guiding them.” Russell was asked
that he was talking about the third world war, but isn't this religion capable
of guiding mankind before the third world war? In reply, Russell said,
"Yes, it has this capability, but the Sikhs have not brought out in the
broad daylight, the splendid doctrines of this religion which has come into
existence for the benefit of the entire mankind. This is their greatest sin and
the Sikhs cannot be freed of it.”
What Bertrand was most impressed
with was that Sikhism does not have a doctrine of evangelism that it does
not go out to try to subvert and convert. In some ways he
thought that Sikhs should go out and propagate their great faith.
