10-23-2007, 03:34 PM
10-23-2007, 06:23 PM
I recommend reading this group's site: http://www.zoroastrian.org/
It is more scholarly, ethically based, strictly monotheist, progressive, reasonable and rejects superstition (sound familiar?).
The form of Zoroastrainism that is referenced in the other article is the culmination of centuries of mixing pre-Zoroastrian belief with Zoroastrian teaching, later additions from other Aryan (read Iranian/Indo-European not whacky Nazi) cults. Even as that faith is practiced in India among the diaspora and in Iran by a persecuted minority differs greatly. In North America there is some movement underway to shift towards a Gathic-centered, open, progressive faith.
I've been in touch with these folks for some time, and I find their doctrines quite attractive.
It is more scholarly, ethically based, strictly monotheist, progressive, reasonable and rejects superstition (sound familiar?).
The form of Zoroastrainism that is referenced in the other article is the culmination of centuries of mixing pre-Zoroastrian belief with Zoroastrian teaching, later additions from other Aryan (read Iranian/Indo-European not whacky Nazi) cults. Even as that faith is practiced in India among the diaspora and in Iran by a persecuted minority differs greatly. In North America there is some movement underway to shift towards a Gathic-centered, open, progressive faith.
I've been in touch with these folks for some time, and I find their doctrines quite attractive.
10-23-2007, 07:08 PM
Thanks...nice site...I will have to look over the Gathas in more detail.
10-24-2007, 10:45 AM
if you poke around the site enough, there's a copy in PDF form for free download of Jafaray's translation.