Guru sahib were free thinkers and taught us to be they broke us away from pandits and brahmins. Why do we turn to these new brahmins of gianis. Sikhi has failed in many ways to be an organised religion because the politics side of it have failed in punjab and heavy corruption. Alot of people are stabbing into organised religion like Christianity and the wars it had crusades, paedophilia, war in Iraq/Afghanistan, imperialism, hate kill gays, killing witches (those who practice witchcraft), having mistresses/concubines in the past. Hinduism went to its utmost geographical borders through brahminsm. Islam a young religion has spread very far and is looking to spread more.
As for five vices this is an old teaching everywhere it is in India, in buddhism, in islam as nafs. Alot of religion in the west is cherry picking choosing bits and pieces because entire religions don't work doing bibbek bhuddhi and wearing a chola with a huge kirpan and dhamalla in the west is hard, sikhs draw the line at some point. The esoteric teachings of sikhi were around in India in one shape or another in the past. Thing is religion is abit of a race it defines a set of people you mix with have kids with like animals the tribe you walk with your heard so at this moment it is very hard being sikh and people are leaving sikhi and some people are comming in at the same time.
3ho have a weird way of looking at sikhi like hippie harekrishna kind of way, in the past sikhism and harekrishna would have been very pagan for them as christians something they would have hated and the shift towards hating islam is more to do with relating it with paganism however it is very christian in nature and alot of christians are converting to islam. Sikhs issues with islam is more to do with slavery, concubines- women picking, abusing indians.
The founders of america were freemasons who tried to invent standards different from chrisitanity alot of people were fedup at that point. Then they have shaped and shifted christianity towards a set of beliefs they like and all over the world christianity has changed with time kind of like how sufis tried to change islam but everytime sufis have not had a big effect through philisophy they have changed alot though like the strictness of shariah laws in many islamic countries.
