"Can you dig it?"
Posted on 04/19/2019 5:07:57 AM PDT by Cronos
Zoroaster was quite an amazing guy actually
Live sometime around that time of the Buddha
"Can you dig it?"
“Nothing says death cult like one of the major pagan sources for Mohammad’s ideologies.”
It was also likely a major influence on JudeoChristianity - the concept of an evil archrival to the good God, judgement at death, heaven and hell, a savior born of a virgin, a final judgement, and resurrection. All of these concepts were originally taught in Zoroastrianism before Christianity and Islam existed. Judgement at death was also an ancient Egyptian belief.
The current Islamic government of Iran has persecuted the Zoroastrians relentlessly. It's easier to be a Christian in Iran than a Zoroastrian.
Isn’t that why Freddie Mercury’s parents left Iran in the first place?
Are we gonna make ‘em bury their dead???
Christianity and Judaism are monotheistic.
Zoroastrianism is not.
Islam almost wasn’t monotheistic, the pagans at the time didn’t want Mohammads teachings, being that Allah was the god over their gods, and thus Muhammad wrote off the other gods.
You have to take into account that Avesta was written in the 4th century, meaning that it’s highly likely that Zoroastrianism borrowed from Christianity when it comes to a savior story lol.
Wonder if they will eventually name it after the most famous Zoroastrian in the world: Freddie Mercury
His actual name was Farrukh Balsara.
Hmm why would we? Their tradition for 2700 years is not to pollute earth or fire or water with dead bodies but to let them be exposed to vultures in the towers of silence
Freddie Mercury or to call him by his real name Farrukh Balsara was born ij Zanzibar but his parents were Indian Parsis from Gujarat.
Their ancestors had left Iran in the 8th century, not the 20th
I stand corrected.
(But hey, I also corrected you on Rudolf Höss, so we’re even! ;))
They wouldn’t have been called Magi. Magi means a follower of Zoroaster
And of the parents of Farrokh Bulsara (Freddy Mercury):
Yes it was.
Apologists for Islam like to point to the great works of "Arab" scholars and philosophers during the Middle Ages as proof that Islam and advanced civilization are not incompatible. Most of these "Arabs" (e.g. Avicenna, etc) were actually Persians, and their scholarly tradition dates back to their pre-Islamic cultural heritage. Islam simply hadn't yet completely stamped out traditional Persian culture during the 10th and 11th centuries - it took several centuries of entrenchment and increasing fanaticism for that to happen.
Imagine what the Middle East would be like today if Iran were Zoroastrian Persia and if Arab countries and Turkey were Christian.
It is interesting the tie between the metaphors. I didn’t say they worshiped the flames, although in a sub-Christian context it would be understandable if they did.
It’s customary in Jewish synagogues to have an “eternal lamp” burning all the time. The one I used to go to (how I became Christian is another story) used an electric one. Which would burn unless the electricity went out or the bulb burned out. At that time I wondered about whether they could use what we know now as an uninterruptible power supply.
I’m kind of surprised that there weren’t more of these already. It sounds like they try to be inoffensive.
The Middle East would be a far more peaceful place.
On the other hand, there are thorny threads going through history. One of which is the progeny of Ishmael, Abraham’s impatient mistake. These are “wild asses” of men, and it’s not surprising that when the devil came up with the scheme we know as Islam, they picked it up. Zoroastrianism, let alone Christianity, would be too civilized for them, given a choice.
“imagine...”
If The Arabs remained Christians they would be a center of learning and culture. Remember that the Desert Fathers - the great saints of Christendom in the 3rd to 6th century were overwhelmingly Egyptian (I know, not Arab), and there was high culture in Yemen and Iraq and high scholarship in Iraq (with Iraq having the most Jews in the world int he 7th century)
But with Islam coming, they are now cesspits
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