[blam]

GGG Ping.

I thought the buzzards that ate the dead were becoming extinct.

[Petronius]

According to some estimates, there are only about 150,000 Zoroastrians in the world today.

Make that 150,001. I've never heard of anything so cool. Why can't there be a huge resurgence? N.B. By believing in a good god and an evil one they avoid the problem of evil that derails monotheism.

[sittnick]

Parsis, also known as Zoroastrians, worship fire and believe that cremation is a mortal sin and that burial pollutes the earth. So they leave their dead atop the towers to be devoured by vultures, a process they believe releases the deceased's spirit.

Freddie Mercury was raised by his Zoroastrian parents, at his death his rite was conducted by a Zoroastrian priest, and yet he was cremated. What gives?!

[SunkenCiv]

Parsis, also known as Zoroastrians, worship fire and believe that cremation is a mortal sin and that burial pollutes the earth. So they leave their dead atop the towers to be devoured by vultures, a process they believe releases the deceased's spirit.

Zoroaster was a reformer of Zervanism. But anyway, there was indeed a problem with the Griffon vultures which the Zs of India use for the excarnation "ritual".

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

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[ZULU]

“Parsis, also known as Zoroastrians, worship fire “

All Parses are Zoroastrians, but not all Zoroastrians are Parses.

Also, Zoroastrians do not worship fire. They believe fire, air, earth and water are sacred, but hey worship one God, and are the world’s FIRST monotheists.

We get our belief in God, Satan, the conflict between good and evil, angels, resurrection of the dead, and last judgment from Zoroastrianism. ALL of the preceding predated Moses.

[freedom44]

Ah. The Glory days. If only Iran was still Zoroastrian. :(

[SunkenCiv]

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