Posted on 02/06/2006 9:40:03 AM PST by presidio9
After trying for four years to have a baby, Khorshed Bulsara called on her fellow Zoroastrians for help. She tapped into a new fertility clinic whose mission is to save one of the world's oldest religions.
Her doctor waved off concerns that Parsis, as Zoroastrians are known in India, may suffer fertility problems linked to generations of inbreeding within a tiny and highly insular community. She put Ms. Bulsara through a battery of tests, prescribed fertility drugs and began an expensive program of in vitro fertilization.
To defray costs, a local Parsi organization and anonymous Parsi donors gave the couple about $2,500.
The investment paid off. In September, Ms. Bulsara delivered Parsi triplets. "There is a way to fulfill one's dream of having a beautiful family through the wonders of technology and the undoubted power of prayers," said her husband, Khushro Bulsara.
There are fewer than 200,000 Zoroastrians in the world, experts say. Most are in India and Iran, the religion's birthplace. The numbers are clearly dwindling in India. According to the 2001 census -- the latest figures available -- India's Parsi population had fallen to 69,601 from 76,382 a decade earlier.
To replenish their ranks, followers of the Iranian prophet Zoroaster, who is thought to have lived about 3,500 years ago, are extolling not just the modern benefits of fertility clinics but also those of Internet dating.
The high-technology push to connect and reproduce Parsis comes as education and work opportunities pull a younger generation into the global work force, delaying love, marriage and children. Like other ethnic
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Is 666 the Mark of Zorro?
You might want to do a bit of research on Mithraism. There are some modern myths floating around about it that you just repeated.
I have no idea. I am not up on the latest in Gay Blade numerology.
Really. Would you like to elucidate, or do you think it sufficient to leave the slur hanging?
Not myths. Many Christians do not want to face facts so they dismiss them as "myths."
Oh, yeah, you did.
Seriously, Freddie's real surname was also Bulsara. I wonder how close a relation these Bulsaras are.
Brilliant, hats off.
I already made the point that Christianity does not lay claim to any tenets, nor does it dispute any similarities. The idea that it does is your own personal fantasy.
How is one credential-ed?
A: They went in Uhura's Mazda.
;^)
I saw his movie with my kids. Not bad. Kind of like Jumanji II. :)
Uh, yes, they are. Try reading here.
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/m/mithra.html
The whole idea that Mithraism is a lot like Christianity came from the so called "Jesus Seminar." If you look to them for reliable scholarship, then it's easy to see why you have embraced this modern myth.
Mithraism is a far older religion than Christianity, with the earliest reference dating from c. 1400 B.C. The Mithra that we know gelled sometime around 200 B.C. and included all the trappings later attributed to Jesus -- being a son of a god, a virgin birth, death for mankind's sins, sitting in judgement of the dead. His feast day was Dec. 25, which was obviously co-opted by the early Church.
Hey, I need a tagline repair. Mine hasn't seemed to have done ONE DAMNED BIT of good!
It is my hope that upon receiving messages such as yours The President will finally come to understand the gravity of the border situation.
I wish to Thank you for your concern regarding this most important matter.
God Bless You
(Wish I could do more to help!)
I'm starting to think it's gonna take much more than letters to the Prez. I'm beginning to believe that we are going to have to send a highly trained crew of Secret Service Agents to sneak into Presidente Fox's office, break into his safe and sneak away the pictures he has of Dubya with that VERY UGLY goat!
But if you read that article, it says that the Zorastrians are dying out in India, as well. The Zorastrian communities in Armenia (Christian dominated) died out in the 19th century. I think GovernmentShrinker is right - it is the no converts rule - what a fatal policy for a religion.
Kinda like the Shakers in the 18th and 19th century and their "no procreation" rule...
Your facts are wrong. Much of what was written in Mithraism about such beliefs was written AFTER Christ. Thus the adaptation of Christian beliefs was likely Mithra adopting Christian beliefs not the other way around.
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