Sikhism was a modern, liberal, open, democratic, monotheistic religion, established in the late fifteenth century by Guru Nanak, that one of the founding principles was opposition to Hinduism’s oppressive caste system, that Sikhs didn’t worship human beings, that the Gurus declared men and women to be equal, that Sikhs didn’t drink, that it was the only major world religion to acknowledge that other religions were a valid way of reaching God.
