Sanatana Dharma - Aka Hinduism (3rd Bin)

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The only new post in the series of spam. Featuring an article that already existed in 2003 (and maybe before).



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On the following statement from the above post:

Further, Zoroastrians denied any original association between Zoroastrianism and Yezidism

Here, an article by Parsis:



tenets.zoroastrianism.com/deen33f.html

THE YEZIDIS OF KURDISTAN - ARE THEY REALLY ZOROASTRIANS ???

by Noshir H. Dadrawala



Fellow Mazdayasni Zarathushtris,



The Gatha-alone cult in the West, in one of it's worst excesses, has thrown open the doors of our sacred religion to any Tom, Dick and Harry that wants to waltz in, on the payment of a "tax-deductible donation". We now have moneyed non-Zoroastrians, such as Muslims, Hindus, Christians and Jews going to the Gatha-alone cult to "try out" what passes for the ancient religion of Zarathushtra, before "moving on" to other New Age religions in the West.



"Try before you buy" seems to be the catch-all Western phrase at work here, but the Westerners dont seem to understand that such material attitudes cannot be applied to spirituality and the sacred religions of the East. Religions cannot be "tried out" then "discarded" as if they were ice cream cones - take the example of a lady we all know, who was born in a different religion, then "became" a Christian, and now her Muslim mentor wants to make her a "born-again Zoroastrian", and takes her to the "come one, come all" fire prayer halls in the West. This is the Gatha-alone cult in action, and TO US STAUNCH ZARATHUSHTRIS WHO BELIEVE THAT RELIGION IS SOMETHING SERIOUS AND NOT TO BE "CHANGED" EVER IN OUR LIVES, ALL THIS SEEMS VERY SICK.



(I agree with their criticism. But to be pedantic: the "Hindus" these Parsis speak of above are obviously new-age Hindus. New age 'Hindus' like to dabble almost as bad as aliens, and worse still: they invite alien dabbling and "conversion" into Hindus' ethnic religion.

Would apologise to Parsis for the new age "Hindus" terrorising their religion, except Hindoos are already terrorised by the same new ageists who keep inviting alien terrorists to parasite on Hindoos' ancestral heathenism, thereby making Hindoos' and Hindu religion equally victims of the same menace that the above Parsis mentioned.

Some of these new age "Hindus" further try to invite alien terrorists to dabble in Taoism. :Grrr: No I'm not kidding. Of course, if it were up to me, no one would hear from such "Hindus" ever again...)



We must remember that this Gatha-alone cult is peopled mainly by ex-Muslims and other non-Zoroastrians, who of course fail to understand the pride and faith we born Zoroastrians feel in our religion, and the abhorrence we feel for the unhappy practise of conversion, which several Parsi scholar-dasturjis have confirmed was NEVER practised by our great and proud ancestors.



The fact is : today, the outsiders are selling our religion in exchange for cold CASH. This crass commercialization of our religion in North America is disgusting and needs to be opposed, our religion is NOT something that can be bought if one has enough money. Our Mazdayasni Zarathushtri Religion is our sacred BIRTHRIGHT and we will not see it CHEAPENED and SOLD in this manner.



Here is an article from the famous Parsi writer Noshir Dadrawala on the "Yezidis" of Kurdistan, these people have been proclaimed by the Gatha-alone cult to be "hidden Zoroastrians". Noshir examines this assumption, studies the beliefs of the Yezidis including their incredible reverance of Satan, and shows us once and for all HOW THE GATHA-ALONE CULT IN NORTH AMERICA IS MISLEADING THE ZOROASTRIAN COMMUNITY, AND MISLEADING THE WHOLE WORLD when it speaks and commits untruths in the name of our great religion.



Kudos to Noshir Dadrawala, and to scholars like Dr. Pallan Ichaporia in the West, who have frequently exposed the wrong teachings and actions of the ex-Muslim Gatha-alone Cult in the West.



A Note of warning: This article describes the religious ideas of the Yezidis, these ideas are non-Zoroastrian, and are only described here to show that their religion is not Zoroastrian.





<The main article then starts. See at link.

Interesting is that Yezidism is pointed out by Encyclopaedia Britannica as also having incorporated influences from Manichaeanism. Which could explain some of the "Hindu" imports into Yezidism.>



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Note that the Internet Archive crawled the above page for the first time in 24 Oct 2003. I.e. the article is *at least* as old as that:

web.archive.org/web/20031024150109/http://tenets.zoroastrianism.com/deen33f.html