Posted on 07/02/2022 4:36:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Among the world’s present-day religions, Zoroastrianism, founded more than 3,000 years ago, is one of the most ancient and historically influential. Yet even though its adherents maintain vibrant communities on four continents, they acknowledge their numbers are dauntingly small — perhaps 125,000 worldwide.
Starting Friday, about 1,200 attendees from 16 countries will be assessing their faith’s prospects during the four-day World Zoroastrian Congress in New York City, the first one held in the United States since 2000.
The agenda reflects a keen awareness of the challenges facing their religion. Prospects for growth are limited, given that Zoroastrians don’t seek to convert outsiders and — in many cases — don’t consider the children of mixed marriages to be members of the faith. Yet there’s also some cause for optimism.
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rounded up a few additions:
If you can’t soar with the eagles, at least you can fly in the vultures...
“Lets worship like we usta - I’m a Zarathustra boostah” Joseph Campbell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBtSFhbxBTg
I have read that Mohhamed’s tribe the Quraysh were nabateans. That they believed in some primitive form of Abrahamism before Muhhamed was even born. That petra was the original place of pilgramige for the the muslims before they moved to mecca. Before the muslms Petra was a pagan place of Pilgrimage.
The new testament says that St Paul visited Arabia. By that it was meant that he went at least as far as Petra. where they still practiced child sacrifice in St Paul’s time. Might be what he witnessed there outside of the roman orbit—that caused him to convert to christianity.
Finally that muhhamads invasions was the fourth time the tribes of arabia united and poured out of saudi arabia. the three previous were the Edomites, Midianites, Ishmaelites, and Mohhamed’s Nabateans.
Could all be wrong. Lots of speculation.
https://friendlyexmuslim.com/was-muhammad-from-petra-or-makkah/
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