| rdfs:comment | - Zoroastrianism is a religion in some of the Civilization games.
- Homosexuality in Zoroastrianism is, as in many other religions, a controversial topic. Orthodox Zoroastrians tend to favor the suppression of homosexuality in their community while more socially progressive Zoroastrians accept homosexuality. Generally, though, homosexuality is discouraged by a majority of Zoroastrians.
- Zoroastrianism is the fire worshipping religion the Persians and the slaves of the Persians in the Persian empia followed until they got their asses kicked by Gerard Butler and decided to worship him instead. There are still a few hundred thousand of them left around...not for long, though, if Stephen has anything to say about it. Christianity is absolutely nothing like it, of course. I mean, they worship fire (Fire is only symbol, no worship) for christ sakes! If it isn't blatantly obvious who they were influenced by, I don't know what is!
- Zoroastrianism is a semi-dualistic monotheistic religion revolving around the god Ahura Mazda.
- Zoroastrianism is a religion and philosophy, founded by Zoraster in ancient Iran. It was the one of the first religions to have the good/evil things, which branched off to other religions, like Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The good god in Zoroastrianism is called Ahura Mazda and fire is venerated as a supposed pure element representing divine wisdom. There is also an evil force known as Angra Mainyu that will later be defeated. Zorastrians emphasize high moral standards which they hope will help defeat the forces of evil.
- Zoroastrianism's principle characteristic is its strongly dualistic ideology, which is based on a asha-versus-druj paradigm, which cannot be translated without significant loss of meaning but may be paraphrased as truth versus falsehood, order versus chaos, creation versus anti-creation. The two are absolute and irreconcilable antitheses, and the universal and transcendental God and Creator Ahura Mazda is purely good, and anything that is not good does not originate from the Creator.
- Due to its great antiquity, Zoroastrianism was tremendously influential on the history, culture, and art of Persia, as well as on the development of the Abrahamic religions. According to scholars, Zoroastrianism was the first religion to believe in angels, a day of judgment, a Satan figure, and an ongoing battle between forces of light and darkness in the cosmos. These ideas later influenced the theological development of Judaism (and, by extension, Christianity and Islam).
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| abstract | - Due to its great antiquity, Zoroastrianism was tremendously influential on the history, culture, and art of Persia, as well as on the development of the Abrahamic religions. According to scholars, Zoroastrianism was the first religion to believe in angels, a day of judgment, a Satan figure, and an ongoing battle between forces of light and darkness in the cosmos. These ideas later influenced the theological development of Judaism (and, by extension, Christianity and Islam). The tendency of the Abrahamic traditions to use of light as a symbol of goodness may be partially derived from Zoroastrian rituals associated with reverence for fire and purity. Likewise, the concept of the Halo, still commonly associated with saints and holy figures in art today, first originated in Zoroastrianism. However, the Zoroastrians most explicitly recognized in the Western world are the Magi, whose visit to the infant Jesus is described in the Christian New Testament. At one time, Zoroastrianism was the most powerful religion in the world; today it is on the decline, at least partially due to its insistence on intermarriage within its shrinking number of followers. Populations of Zoroastrians live in India, Iran and other Middle Eastern countries.
- Zoroastrianism is a religion in some of the Civilization games.
- Homosexuality in Zoroastrianism is, as in many other religions, a controversial topic. Orthodox Zoroastrians tend to favor the suppression of homosexuality in their community while more socially progressive Zoroastrians accept homosexuality. Generally, though, homosexuality is discouraged by a majority of Zoroastrians.
- Zoroastrianism is the fire worshipping religion the Persians and the slaves of the Persians in the Persian empia followed until they got their asses kicked by Gerard Butler and decided to worship him instead. There are still a few hundred thousand of them left around...not for long, though, if Stephen has anything to say about it. Christianity is absolutely nothing like it, of course. I mean, they worship fire (Fire is only symbol, no worship) for christ sakes! If it isn't blatantly obvious who they were influenced by, I don't know what is!
- Zoroastrianism is a semi-dualistic monotheistic religion revolving around the god Ahura Mazda.
- Zoroastrianism is a religion and philosophy, founded by Zoraster in ancient Iran. It was the one of the first religions to have the good/evil things, which branched off to other religions, like Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The good god in Zoroastrianism is called Ahura Mazda and fire is venerated as a supposed pure element representing divine wisdom. There is also an evil force known as Angra Mainyu that will later be defeated. Zorastrians emphasize high moral standards which they hope will help defeat the forces of evil. Zoroastrianism predates Christianity and the concept of a battle between God and Satan in Christianity is unoriginal.
- Zoroastrianism's principle characteristic is its strongly dualistic ideology, which is based on a asha-versus-druj paradigm, which cannot be translated without significant loss of meaning but may be paraphrased as truth versus falsehood, order versus chaos, creation versus anti-creation. The two are absolute and irreconcilable antitheses, and the universal and transcendental God and Creator Ahura Mazda is purely good, and anything that is not good does not originate from the Creator. The role and purpose of all creation is to sustain and strengthen the order, which can be achieved through voluntary "good thoughts, good words and good deeds," that is, through active - but voluntary - participation in the battle between "the better and the bad." This voluntary participation is the foundation of Zoroastrianism's tenets of free will, which is in turn arguably Zoroaster's greatest contribution to religious philosophy. In Zoroastrianism, the Creator Ahura Mazda is all good, and no evil originates from Him. Thus, in Zoroastrianism good and evil have distinct sources, with evil (druj) trying to destroy the creation of Mazda (asha), and good trying to sustain it. Mazda is not immanent in the world, and His creation is represented by the Amesha Spentas and the host of other Yazatas, through whom the works of God are evident to humanity, and through whom worship of Mazda is ultimately directed. The most important texts of the religion are those of the Avesta, of which a significant portion has been lost, and mostly only the liturgies of which have survived. The lost portions are known of only through references and brief quotations in the later works, primarily from the 9th to 11th centuries. Zoroastrianism is of great antiquity. In some form, it served as the national or state religion of a significant portion of the Iranian people for many centuries before it was gradually marginalized by Islam from the 7th century onwards. The political power of the pre-Islamic Iranian dynasties lent Zoroastrianism immense prestige in ancient times, and some of its leading doctrines were adopted by other religious systems. It has no major theological divisions (the only significant schism is based on calendar differences), but it is not monolithic. Modern-era influences have a significant impact on individual and local beliefs, practices, values and vocabulary, sometimes complementing tradition and enriching it, but sometimes also displacing tradition entirely.
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