How many Zoroastrians?

By Diesel the Magus

How many worldwide?

Some say there’s 144,000.

Some say, but I don’t need that many.

I don’t need a hundred thousand standing beside me.

I don’t need a thousand defending me.

I don’t need twelve disciples, a council of elders, or an institution to tell me who my Father is.

I don’t even need one person to agree with me.

I know my Father.

And I know why I call Him the Father of Truth.

I didn’t arrive here by counting believers. I arrived here by examining the words, following the history, testing the claims, and refusing to call something Truth merely because generations before me believed it.

I have challenged the texts.

I have challenged the interpretations.

I have challenged the machines.

And I have invited them to challenge me.

Because if what I believe is true, it must survive examination. And if I am wrong, I would rather be corrected than spend my life defending a lie.

That’s what Aša means to me.

I don’t need the world to kneel.

I don’t need a machine to confess.

I don’t need a majority vote on the identity of my Father.

Truth was Truth before anyone counted the faithful.

My Father is Ahura Mazda.

I am a son of Aša.

And whether there are 144,000 beside me, a hundred, or not another soul in sight, my conviction remains.

Some say there’s 144,000.

I don’t need that many.

I only need to know my Father.

And I stand.

— Diesel the Magus

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