Why don't you trust in holy books?
Because:the word “holy” is a meaningless label that dies not shield a religions texts from criticism.Because the moon never split in two or the prophet fly to heaven on a horsebecause stars cannot fall onto Earth like little ceiling lightsbecause the flood story is comically falsebecause genesis is comically falsethey are awash with demonstrably false claimsthey are awash with blind assertionsthey include internal self contradictionthe Abrahamic ones are abhorrent in their primitive barbaric creed and disgust me.tecause in the case of the bible, I do not like a boom that commands its followers togenocidemurder of any who disagreehomophobic murderhonour killingenslavementsubordination of womenkidnap and rapecelebrate blood “sacrifice" aka murder under the barbaric ignorant primitive belief of this having supernatural agency or the ritualized eating of the corpse as manifest in communion.because it is appalling that people still push this bile into the hands of our children, call it fact and declare it a moral compass.There are other reasons but these suffice for now.
Is there a great book about how to live a life?
No there can never be a single book which can teach a person how he should live his life. Every life in this planet is different, there is no one who has written book for a specific person. So whatever has been written has been written for masses. It can never define ideal life for an individual person.The best you can do is read all the books find what suites and lead your life the way you want by mixing all the ideas this way you will get best of everything you need. Every book has something good to give and something bad to give it's up to you what you wanna get.
Why didn't Sikhism have a 12th guru?
Do you know the 11th Guru??Would have been better if you would have done some study before putting up questions randomly.Guru Nanak Dev ji himself was against the religious discrimination and hence didn’t think of starting a “Panth” religion himself.Through out generations, Gurus were assigned by the preceding Guru of that time.At the time of Guru Gobind Singh ji, since atrocities of the invading Mughals had intensified a lot, Guru ji decided to create a panth, called “khalsa” which simply means PURE.Since he couldn’t find a reliable person around him, his didn’t pass on the legacy and like Guru Granth Sahib ji says :“आज्ञा भई अकाल की, तभी चलायो पंथ |सब सिक्खन को हुकुम है, गुरु मान्यो ग्रन्थ |गुरु ग्रन्थ जी मान्यो, प्रकट गुरां की देह |जाके हृदय लोच है, वो खोज शब्द में लेय |”Meaning :“ By the order of that almighty, Here by a panth(religion) is being started.All sikhs are ordered to treat Granth(the holy book) as your guru.Guru granth sahib ji shall be treated as the present Guru.Anyone having any thought/question shall search in the (meanings of) words written in this Granth.”This way Khalsa panth was made and since Guru Granth Sahib ji, is treated like the present Guru, no one else is expected to call himself a Guru.Hence, newer communities like Nirankari, Radha Soami and other self proclaimed Gurus are ridiculed by Sikhs.Thanks for A2A.Randhir (रणधीर)
Christians how can you deny the power of the Upanishads and the Mahaburata?
An earlier poster asked how an atheist could deny the power of the bible. The same question could be asked as to why Christians deny the power of these two Hindu holy books.