{"id":1709,"date":"2011-04-22T09:02:46","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T15:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2011-04-22T09:02:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T15:02:46","slug":"2nd-law-4-zoroastrianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/?p=1709","title":{"rendered":"2nd Law #4: Zoroastrianism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/images\/2law.png\" align=\"left\" \/>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/podcasts\/2ndlaw\/2L_004.mp3\"><b>this episode<\/b><\/a>, Joemma discuss Zoroastrianism; the world\u2019s first &#8220;revealed&#8221; religion (meaning a prophet pulled this shit out of his ass\/arse).  Zoroastrianism\u2019s theological innovations provided the backbone for the Abrahamic faiths as we know them today. It is admirable for its emphasis on celebrating life and its optimistic perspective, as opposed to the asceticism and self-loathing promoted by more emo religions of yore like Manicheanism.<\/p>\n<p>Joe knows a fair bit about this shit, so he takes the lead while Emma says \u201cOK, yep, interesting\u201d a lot, and leaves the more linguistically dextrous Joe to pronounce all the foreign words just right.<\/p>\n<p>Good thoughts, good deeds, good words and a good time will be had by all. Rev up your Mazda, you\u2019re in for one hell of a ride.<\/p>\n<p>Joemma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Joemma discuss Zoroastrianism; the world\u2019s first &#8220;revealed&#8221; religion (meaning a prophet pulled this shit out of his ass\/arse). Zoroastrianism\u2019s theological innovations provided the backbone for the Abrahamic faiths as we know them today. It is admirable for its emphasis on celebrating life and its optimistic perspective, as opposed to the asceticism and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eastern-religions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}