Posted on 06/23/2009 12:56:04 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
Just saw it on Fox News in a discussion about the role of camera pens in the Iran protests.
“Skepticism makes you really mad, doesn’t it?”
OK, then. I bit; shoulda known. Very well done!
“Unfortunately the Zoroastrians do not accept converts”
I don’t know where you got your info from ? Your info is not quite accurate.
Some Orthodox Parsi Zoroastrians (Parsi = those original persians who migrated to India centuries ago) are against conversion. The same does not apply to less dogmatic Parsis or the Iranian-Zoroastrians.
In fact Muslim born Iranians converting to Zoroastrianism as well Christianity are on the rise in Iran, as well as around the globe. Only in Iran, because of death penalty for conversion out of Islam i.e. apostasy laws Islamic Republic regime, the Muslim borns who do convert, in Iran keep things under wraps.
Read this and the comments:
http://plateauofiran.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/conversion-to-zoroastrianism-sedreh-pushi-navjote/
and about the Baha’i Faith
http://plateauofiran.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/the-bahai-faith/
You are very much generalizing about Zoroastrians not accepting converts.
See # 162 and links about conversion to zoroastrianism and baha’i faith.
The other person as I mentioned is the Shah's son Reza. He is still loved by the Iranian people, educated and intelligent. He certainly is not like his father and would not be as ruthless. One thing going for the US is that he is very pro American, which is something that we could use right now. Whether or not, should he remain if he returned and for how long, only time would tell. The Iranian people are a good lot and deserve much better that what they have now.
I hear that there is some form of Zoroastrianism (here in the US?) that does accept converts. They need to get together with the Zoroastrians in Iran, who don’t accept converts as part of their old accommodation with islam (and with Hinduism).
But best of all would be conversion to Christianity. I know Iranian-Americans who are Christians. But Iran needs a form of Christianity that is more indigenous to Iran, to avoid the dependence on the West that they so abhor.
That would be the Assyrian Orthodox Church (Church of the East) and/or the Armenian Orthodox Church, both of which have a long history in Iran. But these Christian groups in Iran are small, are ethnically-based, and have liturgical languages (Aramaic and Armenian, respectively) other than Persian/Farsi.
But the original Christian Church on the day of Pentecost had only around 120 members, all of who were Jews with Aramaic as their native language (Acts 1). And they evangelized the entire known world in just a few years!!!! With God, all things are possible.
As long as the rotten islamic Republic has the Iranian people under its iron boot, the chance of their hearing and responding to the Holy Gospel is next to zero. (muslim converts to Christianity are now routinely killed.) But if and when the islamic Republic is overthrown, many who have been ground down by the very worst form of islam and have become nominal muslims may be very receptive to the Gospel.
Why on earth should Iran become ANY kind of religious republic?
A better model is India, which manages to continue despite frictions between the dominant religions there -- and I might add that things weren't always so very cozy here in the States either. And a true Iranian republic would probably look much more like the Indian or Israeli model -- lots of parties, continual bickering and shifting alliances.. but working.
(And maybe better than our alleged "two-party" system does today. But that's a rant for another thread.)
Indian and Israeli model works only because the majority in those countries are Hindu and Jewish respectively.
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