Here we got at most two hundred thousands people who believe rest of the 6 billion people on this planet are dead wrong!! I am speaking of Zoroastrians. Talk about Chutzpah (supreme self confidence in Hebrew). They are so convinced of their righteousness that the main headache they have is how to avoid inter marriages in order not to dilute their sect. I mean give me a break!! Now, I am not saying these are bad people or anything like that. Most likely they are very decent people with good moral values but again after few thousands years they have to freshen up.
How much mileage you can get out of “Good thoughts, good deeds, good words”? They should have realized by now that “good” is not good enough!! One needs more road maps more guidelines. For starter is stem cell research a “good” thing? If so please send a letter to White house titled “Thus spoke Zarathustra” !!!
Then again there is nothing special about these folks. There are tons of other small sects out there trying to survive the remorseless history at the expense of assuming rest of us being eternally misguided and doomed. Don’t get me wrong ideologies or religions with many more followers don’t necessarily fair better still they make their living by sentencing rest of us to reside eternally in some kind of HELL! I think some kind of modesty is in order for all people of faith! Lets be more inclusive!! For now we are trapped on this spaceship called earth. I suggest we get along! 
Here is the article in NYTIMES that started all this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/06/us/06faith.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
Zoroastrians Keep the Faith, and Keep Dwindling
BURR RIDGE, Ill. — In his day job, Kersey H. Antia is a psychologist who specializes in panic disorders. In his private life, Mr. Antia dons a long white robe, slips a veil over his face and goes to work as a Zoroastrian priest, performing rituals passed down through a patrilineal chain of priests stretching back to ancient Persia…….
September 11, 2006 at 6:52 am
What are you, ten years old? Grow up.