The Magi Will Rise Again
An Unpopular Response to an Uncomfortable Question It started, as most uncomfortable conversations do, with someone trying to be cruel. A user posted in the Zoroastrian community forum last week. No greeting. No context. Just this: "Why are you wasting your time with a dead religion? Zoroastrianism has 140,000 followers worldwide. Buddhism has 500 million. Islam has 1.8 billion. You are building a website for a religion that will be clinically extinct before your grandchildren are born.
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An Unpopular Response to an Uncomfortable Question It started, as most uncomfortable conversations do, with someone trying to be cruel. A user posted in the Zoroastrian community forum last week. No greeting. No context. Just this: "Why are you wasting your time with a dead religion? Zoroastrianism has 140,000 followers worldwide. Buddhism has 500 million. Islam has 1.8 billion. You are building a website for a religion that will be clinically extinct before your grandchildren are born. Explain yourself." Th is was my response: "You want me to explain myself. Alright. Let's start with your numbers. 140,000 Zoroastrians. You're proud of that statistic. You found it somewhere, wrote it down, and decided it meant something. Let me tell you what it actually means: nothing. Or more precisely — it measures the wrong thing entirely.
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