RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] how people choose their religions

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Jonathan King wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Matthew Ross DID NOT write:

But Mike Miller did write:

> > > > That was convenient!  If he'd said Zoroastrianism, you'd
> > > > have been hard pressed to make new friends.  ;-)  Hearing
> > > > "Christianity" must have been like hitting the jackpot,
> > > > both in the US and the UK.
>
> [Sorry; lost the attrribution here.]

It was me.

> A couple of points here.  First, Zoroastrianism is an extremely ancient
> and unique variety of monotheism. The faith is shrinking because they do
> not prosyletize, marry for love (rather than by arrangement) and do not
> recognize inter-marriage.  And everybody wants to marry one because they
> are rich and well-educated.  How well-educated?  80% have college
> degrees here in the US.
>
> "Zoroastrianism is" also the answer to the bizarre trivia question "what
> do Zubin Mehta and Freddy Mercury have in common".


That is very interesting.  So there still are Zoroastrians.  I thought it
was a bit closer to extinction than it is.

Mike
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