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>>19924977
Very good and erudite post.
>>19924866
Check out Mardanfarrox's Doubt Removing Book. I have given an excerpt indicating dualism:
http://www.avesta.org/mp/SGV.pdf
Also, this is a good article summarizing it in a more rigorous philosophical manner.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25676936?seq=1
The uncreated good God is delimited by what is logically possible and the uncreated evil spirit is real but does not independently exist (i.e., it can only corrupt the good).
Granted, there were a few backwards beliefs in Orthodox Zoroastrianism, but there is evidence of movements like Mazdakism reforming the negative aspects. For example, early Zoroastrians viewed certain animals like frogs, wolves, and snakes as creatures of Ahriman, but Mazdak the Younger argued every organism has an intermixture of light and dark "particles". The Gnostic Mani, who was also heavily influenced by Mazdan dualism, also argued every sentient being has a divine spark encased in darkness.
I would not be surprised if superstitions regarding black cats originally came from the Sassanian empire.

>>18852743
>My conscience says making people suffer eternally for things they have no idea of and can't learn about is fucked up and straight Evil, yet I can't just abandon Christianity (it is not like I found anything better yet, the New Age is a joke especially), which says God is Good and Love and Virtue etc. yet made a world where like ~98% percent of humanity are destined to spiritual torture for things they have no control over etc...

>>18813459
>Zoroastrianism is not dualist in the moral sense
Yes, it is. Orthodox Mazdaysna was heavily dualistic. The Zurvanites were nondualists, however, and they were fatalists.

>>18766145
>Not really, but then you've never bothered looking up this subject so I can't blame you for not knowing.
I've read a lot of Mahayana Sutras.
Perhaps, you're correct. I actually don't know much about Theravada except they follow the Pali canon, which is older than Mahayana Sutras. It's possible Theravada is younger whereas the Pali canon is older.

Also, Mardanfarrokh's Doubt Removing Book is a philosophical text. There's also Zoroaster's Gathas, which is religious.

>>18739208
This is one reason out of many Abrahamism is trash. Zoroastrianism didn't have this problem (check image). Granted, original Zoroastrianism did have some unique problems, but Mazdak was reforming it before oppressive Orthodox mobeds killed him.

>>18651888
You're correct about Zurvanites, but I think orthodox Mazdayasna tended to be more dualistic.

>>18647731
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>>18649561
Check out Mardanfarrox's Doubt Removing Book. I have given an excerpt indicating dualism:
http://www.avesta.org/mp/SGV.pdf
Also, this is a good article summarizing it in a more rigorous philosophical manner.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25676936?seq=1
The uncreated good God is delimited by what is logically possible and the uncreated evil spirit is real but does not independently exist (i.e., it can only corrupt the good).

>>18600537
Theology largely ended with Mardanfarrokh. Pic-related.

>>16873748
Nope, it's a collision of two contrary things.

>>16834473
Nope, the Bundashihn and Doubt Removing Exposition of Mardanfarrox both argue Ohrmazd is not omnipotent. Here is a quote from Mardanfarrox's Doubt Removing Exposition. In fact, he criticizes Manichaeism in it: