religion

My mission is to be a red shirted witness of the light. For it is written in the prophecy of the book of Wembley. "And lo all things on earth shall come to their end when the blue shirted agents of the beast shalt come forth from SW1. God shalt sent judgement upon the Nation and only the faithful few, led my Saints Viera and Ljungberg shalt go to the stadium of Paradise where there shalt be no more red cards or silly Beckham haircuts."

fatalky, women can't even be priests yet, let alone the Big Daddy. It's a patriarchal religion. Women in supportive roles, only.

Being a priest is Ruuubash! The hours are long, you get to drive a nissan (or a Vauxhall if you're a Bishop), you have to listen to everyone else's problems for hours on end and you either get a beardy housekeeper who can't cook or you have to cook your lonely meal yourself. So much to do many priests really struggle to even find the time to prayer. Being a nun is better - the hours are good, the food is better, living in community though tough is a good laugh. You can use the convent vauxhall as standard and can progress to using the convent peaugot. Prayer and spiritual growth can be burtured in such an environment and your ministry will be tailored to your talents. women had more sense!

How long do those pan galactic gargle blasters last then, Jude?

*nurtured even

If I was serious about the subject M, I would only end up repeating what I've said many times on other threads!

:)

The thought of becoming a nun is very tempting to me; once the kids have grown up I may well devote the rest of my life to higher thinking and service to humanity.

My spelling is crap as usual : Abaddon is a Biblical Hebrew word meaning "destruction". In Biblical poetry it comes to mean "place of destruction", and so the underworld or Sheol (cf. Job xxvi. 6; Prov. xv. 11). In Rev. ix. 11 Abaddon is used of Hell personified, the prince of the underworld.

Always thought it was a fitting name as is Mazda the Lord of Light.

Oh and I thought you were talking about Roman Abaddonovich Dark Russian Tycoon of the underworld.

I think thy ARE related :)

I ought to point out that Mazda started out making light bulbs... Mazda bulbs are brighter, longer - always ask for Mazda.

The Zoroastrian Religion pictures humanity as the growing and evolving creation of a God that respects it, and wants it to collaborate in the task of preserving, nourishing, fostering and refreshing this Living World of ours. A Zoroastrian is supposed to progress towards God (Ahura Mazda) by his own choices. Choosing to do good, and to avoid choosing to do wrong or evil. Zoroastrianism is thus the first truly ethical religion of mankind and teaches that mortals achieve their goal of god-likeness and spiritual completeness by fighting evil through good thoughts, words and deeds. Zarathushtra's is a message about a spirituality that progresses towards self-realization, fulfillment and completeness, as a good creation of a totally good God. It is a message of freedom - freedom to choose, freedom from fear, freedom from guilt, freedom from sin, freedom from stultifying rituals, superstitious practices, fake spirituality and ceremonials. The God of Zarathustra, is not a God of "Thou shalt" and "Thou shall not". God in Zoroastrianism does not care what you wear, what and when you eat or where and when you worship. God instead cares how righteous, progressive and good you are.