I was reading about Persia and Zoroastrianism (I spend all my spare time on Wikipedia), and I am realizing that I am totally a Zoroastrian! Listen to these tenets:
Some major modern Zoroastrian precepts:
* Equalism: Equality of all, irrespective of gender, race, or religion.
* Respect and kindness towards all living things. Condemnation of the oppression of human beings, cruelty against animals and sacrifice of animals.
* Environmentalism: Nature is central to the practice of Zoroastrianism and many important Zoroastrian annual festivals are in celebration of nature: new year on the first day of spring, the water festival in summer, the autumn festival at the end of the season, and the mid-winter fire festival.
* Hard work and charity: Laziness and sloth are frowned upon. Zoroastrians are encouraged to part with a little of what would otherwise be their own.
* Loyalty and faithfulness to “family, settlement, tribe, and country.”
Well, I should get back to work. Let me know if you can’t comment, I ramped up my anti-comment-spam plugin ’cause the barbarians were at the gates again.
Can I be a Zoroastrian too?