Freddie Mercury was a Zoroastrian..............
Sure....why not?
As I recall, you can’t join up, you have to be born into it.
In the Zoroastrian faith, aren’t Good and Evil basically equal in power? Both are eternal principles too, right? I think that they do believe in some sort of soul. I’m not sure what they think happens to it after death.
I think the US should cultivate Zoroastrians for the singular reason that they were formerly the Iranian upper classes and have a serious mutual hatred with the Shiites ruling Iran.
They also used to be the leadership of the Iranian army in opposition to the Soviet Union.
An anecdote: After the revolution, a Zoroastrian general’s daughter got very ill and had to be taken to a hospital, which was run by Shiites. They initially refused service to her, at which time the general pointed out that his unit was field artillery and parked just outside of that city. So unless they treated his daughter, and pronto, he was going to order his unit to level that hospital.
They got the hint and treated her promptly.
I’ve read that many knowledgeable people believe that both the biblical ‘Maggie’ as well as the prophet ‘Balaam’ were likely Zoroastrian.
As I recall from college, Zoroastrians are monotheistic.
yea .... that should have been ‘Maggai’ as opposed to ‘Maggie’.....
I believe Captain Ahab of the good ship PEQUOD was delving into this religion before the White Whale showed him the error of his ways. Some of his hidden harpooners were.