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Tell me about Zoroastrianism.
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Gabriel Lee
Bentley Barnes
It steals of ideas from Christianity.
Oliver Flores
If Jesus was also a time traveler who traveled back to 600 before he was born, I guess that would be true
Julian Rodriguez
>any religion stealing ideas from christianity
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Gabriel Perry
Its earliest influences are really, really old. A lot of the language in the Avestas can be traced back to 1,000 B.C.
However, it was almost entirely orally transmitted. The oldest manuscript of any Zoroastrian text we have today dates from the 12th century. The earliest reference to an actual written Zoroastrian holy book is from the second century. How much these modern beliefs match up to what was going on in 1,000 B.C. is pretty much impossible to determine., as are the whens, wheres, hows, and whys of any influences or changes.
Carter Diaz
The Jews took their scrolls into captivity in Babylon, which turned into captivity in Persia when the Medeo-Persian empire conquered the Babylonian.
Zoroaster read and believed the tanakh as written, and added his own local fire god flavor to make up his own religion.
James Morales
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Cameron Peterson
>Tell me about Zoroastrianism
Why does is practice the incestual marriage?
Xavier Hughes
Boils down to literally light versus dark. Known for bull sacrifice/blood drinking in its later years, but original worship consisted of tending small fires--much cooler imho
William Perez
Common indo-european practice among royals, but I've never seen any sign common folks did this regularly.
Levi Rivera
A lot of religious knowledge for an anonymous poster.
Kayden Roberts
It was the proto-religion that spawned Christianity and Islam and all their ensuing cults.
Meaning, if we go back in time and stop that Zoroaster nigger, we can stop the world from going to shit.
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Leo Wright
I'm flattered you of all people would notice, Anonymous.
Jose King
Why did Judaism influence so many major religions?
Connor Fisher
Because at one time they had the living God as their King.
Joshua Lewis
Actually it's the other way around. Zoroastrianism influenced Judaism and Christianity.
>Most scholars, Jewish as well as non-Jewish, are of the opinion that Judaism was strongly influenced by Zoroastrianism in views relating to angelology and demonology, and probably also in the doctrine of the resurrection, as well as in eschatological ideas in general, and also that the monotheistic conception of Yhwh may have been quickened and strengthened by being opposed to the dualism or quasi-monotheism of the Persians.
jewishencyclopedia.com
>Perhaps there is some influence here from the Zoroastrian religion of the Persians, which had such a belief.
jewishvirtuallibrary.org
>Beneath the surface, though, foreign elements creeped in to the Hebrew religion. While the reformers were busy trying to purify the Hebrew religion, the Persian religion, Zoroastrianism, creeped into it among the common run of people.
jewishvirtuallibrary.org
Christard apologists will tell you to take their word on it that it was not the case, but they are known to be compulsive liars.
Adrian Nguyen
It's a pure Aryan religion.
Leo Morgan
it was the opposite
Judaism was influenced by Egyptian Atenism and by Iranian Zoroastrianism.
Lucas Rodriguez
Don't Jews consider Cyrus the Great to be their Messiah?
Eli Moore
Messiah is not something were there only exists one of in Judaism. Cyrus is a messiah, so is Moses.
Joseph Ortiz
>Actually it's the other way around. Zoroastrianism influenced Judaism and Christianity.
Actually, you're an idiot, and Zeitgeist was not a documentary.
Michael Sanchez
And so will the Antichrist be, to you.
Kevin Morales
Was receiving a compliment part of your plan?
Landon Taylor
They believed (and maybe still believe?) that homosexuality and sodomy are evil because Ahreman created demons by sodomizing himself. Man on woman is a crime but man on man is worst.
Zachary Bell
Zoroaster was dead by the time the jews were captured. Zoroastrianism precedes the persian empire.
Oliver Sanders
I think you're confusing the roman Mythraic Mysteries with actual iranian religions. Roman "mithraists" were to actual mithraists and zoroastrians what western yoga moms are to tibetan budhists.
Jackson Miller
Nonsense. All credible evidence puts him in the 6th century BC overlapping the Jewish captivity.
Dominic Wood
It's actually not dualistic like the memesters will tell you. Not more dualistic than abrahamic religions. In orthodox zoroastrianism Ahura Mazda/Ohrmazd is above Angra Mainyu/Ahriman and light literally cannot lose.
Actual dualism where both contenders of the war are equals is only found in heresy and derived but different religions.
James Richardson
Define credible evidence because avestan is way older than that.