Posted on 04/19/2019 5:07:57 AM PDT by Cronos
Who will be the first to try to set it on fire?
Freddie Mercury from Queen was Zoroastrian.
S mohammedan or college professor?
Local volunteer fireman.
This is far better than Islam.
Wasn't this also the major religion of Persia (Iran) before the Muslim took over (by the sword)?
Beliefs along this vein will usually get along far better with Christians, though the fire part is weird.
Good sized Zoroastrian community around Mumbai (Bombay) in India. They call them Parsis (Parsi like Farsi - Persians).
They practice Sky Burial - leaving their dead out (in a walled enclosure on high ground) to be eaten by vultures.
According to Wiki the US has the third highest number of Zoroastrians, behind India and Iran.
n=15,000
Yes.
“Wasn’t this also the major religion of Persia (Iran) before the Muslim took over (by the sword)?”
Yes - the religion of the three wise men (Magis) who brought gifts to the baby Jesus.
Kurds (whose language is close to Persian) still have some Zoroastrian practices. The biggest holiday of the year is Newroz (New Year), which they celebrate with bonfires.
This may be permitted by the Lord at this time as a reminder of what Christians need to be better than by His power. Zoroastrianism is a “keep it up, it’s ok” religion. Christianity is truly progressive, hastening to add that the goals to which it progresses are by the choice of God, not of man.
Does driving a Mazda constitute honor or sacrilege to Zoroastrians?
Yes it was.
The prophet Zoroaster is supposed to have lived either 1700 BC or 700 BC (the dates are conflicting) in what is now Tajikistan-Uzbekistan (all of Central Asia was part of the iranic cultural and ethnic space before the Turkic invasions of the middle ages.
Zoroastrianism was the religion of Cyrus the Great (Khorush) who freed the Jews and set up the great empire ever - ruling over an estimated 40% of mankind - with the majority of them welcoming his rule.
It was the major religion of Iran before the Arabs took over in the 7th century. Note that Persia/Fars is a small area of south-eastern Iran, colocated with what was Elam. Iran is the older name for the wider area of what is now iran.
The Zoroastrians with the specific denomination of Zurvanism (closer to monotheism than the dualism of earlier Zoroastrianism) was the religion of the Sassanid Empire (c 200 AD to the Arab times) but the secondary important religion was Christianity - specifically Assyrian/Chaldean christianity, which we incorrectly called Nestorian Christianity.
it is guessed that a large minority were Christians and even some of the ruling family.
Islam came and was exceptionally harsh on Zoroastrianism as they are not “people of the Book”
All the Parsis I know see it as a honor to their religion that the name of their God is known by many.
Islam: all of the monotheism, none of the grace and love. The devil wanted to get to Zoroastrians before Christ could.
“Wasn’t this also the major religion of Persia?”
Yes, the religion of Cyrus the Great, who freed the Jews from the Babylonian captivity, and rebuilt the Temple in Jerusalem.
Zoroastrianism is centered around the struggle between good and evil, light and darkness (hence the fires, symbolizing the light and the good). They view the struggle to take place in the universe as a whole, but also within each person, which is a focus of their practice - cultivating good and avoiding evil.
Not really. They do not worship fire, any more than Christians worship wood when they pray in front of a cross.
To them, fire is the symbol of God. Considering that in the Bible, God appeared as a burning bush, led the Israelites as a pillar of fire, and in the New Testament we also see God appearing as fire, it's not so different from Christian views:
When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all [a]with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 Then there appeared to them [b]divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
One of the oldest religions in the world.
That’s what I know about them.
Nice building.
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