every one knows that the development of knowledge, education, and science are directly related to the maturity and integrity of human beings. More knowledgeable and educated the people, less they become prey to the deceitfulness of religious businessmen and on the basis of their rationale they even put them to shame. Omar Khayyam, the noted poet, philosopher, and mathematician says:
Oh, Thou, Who didst with Pitfall and with Gin Best the Road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with predestination round Enmesh me, and impute my fall to Sin?
The same philosopher says
Said one – “Folks of a surly Master tell, And daub his Visage with the Smoke of Hell; They talk of some sharp Trial of us – Pish! He’s a Good Fellow, and ‘twill all be well.”
These poems will respond par excellence to the baseless rhetoric of religious impostors. At this point, one may ask: “Why clergies of different religions consider themselves, the only broker of heaven and assert that the clergymen of the other religions are ignorant and fraudulent, their followers are aberrant whom finally will be punished by hell. Yet, we may here ask ourselves why would the creator of such a vast cosmos, which is beyond human speculation, ever need representatives on earth to guide several thousand or several millions of people.
Undoubtedly, if we really try to take advantage of the endowments of our intellectual faculties to liberate ourselves from the slavery of religious brokers, we can terminate the bloodshed, which is caused by so much religious squabbles among the human beings. As the great Iranian philosopher and poet says:
For two-and-seventy jangling creeds he hears, And love-voiced Fable calls him ceaselessly, .
To dope their followers, clergies of different religions have always tried to take advantage of human potentials in order to mislead them. They have, for example, tried to use endorphins (a neurotransmitter, such as morphine), which is secreted from the brain and intoxicates people, indoctrination, brain washing or the effect of placebo (an non-medicinal neutral substance given to a patient, who thinks that it is medicine, merely to change his feelings), to mislead the people and control their mind and their behavior. Obviously, various religions that do not permit their followers to speculate about the nature and properties of their principles undertake the most wickedness and metamorphose the human beings to thoughtless and unwise animals.
As science and culture develop and as human beings's enlightenment increases, Zoroastrian principles of (good reflection, good word, and good behavior) will be shared again, and Zoroastrianism will thus recover its splendour. Having achieved such a summum bonum, it does not matter, how and under what rubric human beings label themselves.
