In response to Dastur (Dr) Firoze Kotwal’s rejoinder "Preserving our traditions,” to my article "Clergy wary of change” (Parsiana, January 7-20, 2025), I would like to address some of the points he has made.
Kotwal writes, "We have preserved our priestly traditions, the genealogy of our priestly traditions and our ritual practices which have their roots in the Sasanian period.” That is precisely the point I made that our religion, as practiced today, is based on the beliefs and practices of the Sasanian era. These practices and beliefs must be rooted in Zarathushtra’s teachings and not in those formulated by some......