I think that claim can be made without reservation after a middle school teacher in (Seriously, where else?) Florida is accused of "wizardry" and relieved of his job after performing a simple sleight-of-hand magic trick with a toothpick. The only question is- will they be dunking him, or sending for the Witch-finder?

Zoroastrianism is the world's oldest revealed religion. A profound influence on Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, it was the first to teach a monotheistic faith of one God of light, Ahura Mazda. For all its contributions to the world's religious doctrines, Zoroastrianism is little-known in the West.

The three thousand year old faith is slowly dying out, having dwindled to less than a hundred thousand. Today's Zoroastrians, known as Parsees, are largely concentrated in India, where they have lived since they were driven from their Persian homeland by Alexander the Great (known to Zoroastrians as 'Alexander the accursed') more than two thousand years ago.

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