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by King Cheung on May 7th, 2005

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I heard that Adolf Hitler practiced Zoroastrianism, was this true?

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  • by Alatea on November 2nd, 2005

    Alatea

    The answer to your question is no.
    Hitler was raised Catholic and at one time wanted to be a priest. What he did do was mutilate the word Aryan.

    Many religions (including Zoroastrians, Buddhists, Jains, and Hindus) use Aryan as a title for a person who is noble and/or spiritual. In Buddhist teachings for instance, someone can be Aryan, no matter what race they are, by being noble, good natured, righteous in behavior, etc... Likewise Aryan status is lost by not living up to this code of conduct.

    Aryan was once used to refer to the people (not race) who spoke the original Indo-Europe language/s, but that term has been replaced by PIEs, or Proto-Indo-Europeans. Racist "white supremacists" should technically be called delusional morons, not Aryans.

    This idea of an "Aryan" race was strongly embraced by Germans as nationalism united the many weak and divided states into a single German nation (during the 19th century). We all know were things went from there (during the early 20th century), with Adolf Hitler using this German superiority complex to assist in gaining power and then blaming all of Germany's problems on non "Aryans". Many hundreds of thousands of people have suffered from this fallacy. There is no such thing as an "Aryan" race. The idea that "Aryans" where outsiders who came into India to conquer the natives is also unproven. People just believed this because of wishful thinking and not proof. This eventually led to widespread false use of "Aryan" by Nazis and other racists as the supposed "white" master race (this racism needs to stop).

    (most common usage) The supposed "white" master race. This recent mutilation of the meaning of "Aryan" was first caused by anti-Semitism (prejudice against Jews or Judaism). Some early Christian scholars made up the idea of an Aryan race (no evidence, just theories based on their own prejudices) as a means of separating themselves from their Jewish heritage (Christianity began as an extremist Jewish sect). They wanted to believe that they descended from different people than the Jews because of differing religious beliefs (ignoring that fact the old testament of the Christian bible is really just an idealized translation of the Torah, or Jewish Hebrew bible).

    The ancient spelling of the word "Iranian". literary means noble in old Persian and Sanskrit. Noble also literary means a free wo/man in Persian (kind of a more spiritual freedom than material).

    Historical note:
    The term Aryan was stolen by German philosophers in 18 century since the linguistics discovered some similarities between Indo-Iranian languages and European languages.Aryans were originally persian. They invaded India a few times in the last few thousands of years. A very small number of Indians are actually Aryan and they tend to live in northern India. Aryans spoke an Indo-European language that is now known as Persian(Farsi). Aryan is not only a race but also a common name in places which aryans reside.

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    • You babbled. There is much more evidence that early Christians were the opposite of prejudice. (I can expand)

      lilly42

      by lilly42 on December 27th, 2005

    • this very true answer

      Sergio

      by Sergio on December 27th, 2005

    • aryans are not just persians they r ppl who emigrted from africa then to india then to germany
      ure whole history note is false but most of them about hitler is right

      RUBAN27

      by RUBAN27 on August 2nd, 2006

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