Zartochrestianism

Our Predicament

Mankind is in terrible trouble across the globe - heading towards the End of the Current Age, and perhaps the End of the Age of Mankind - on a path not unlike its description in the Book of Revelations.

We believe that the spread of 'Good Religion' is the only way to arrest the current headlong rush into the abyss, and enable a revival of human civilization and the good life.

We believe that mainstream Christianity as currently practiced is not able to meet the challenge of the modern era. So we are working on a project to create a new reformed variety of the Christian tradition which we are calling Zartochrestianism or Zoroastrian Christianity.

While there are great risks in trying to 'update' Christianity, there are equally risks in doubling down on the precise formulations inherited from the past as if there is no possibility of producing something better.

What to do

We believe there are two particular faults at least with Christian tradition that need to be rectified:

1. Firstly is the insistence of the exclusive and indivisible connection of the divine Christ with the historical Jesus.

This creates what appears to non-believers as a fantastic situation that one particular human person in history was 'God' in a way that has not been true for anyone else. While this doctrine has a psychological power it challenges the reason beyond its limits and keeps Christianity arrested to a particular point in history 2000 years ago.

2. Second are the doctrines that the Hebrew Scriptures belong together with the Christian scriptures in the same Bible, that these Hebrew scriptures tell us of the origin of Christianity and that the God of the Old Testament is the same as the God of the New Testament.

Such a doctrine was controversial to the earliest Christians and even a cursory reading of the first books of the Old Testament gives us a feeling that we are dealing with a fierce tribal god with very unchristian values.

Also this picture distorts the true roots of the ethical doctrines of Christianity which are really found in the Persian tradition of Zoroastrianism with perhaps influence from India and Greece.


Our project

So despite the fears of many that tinkering with the doctrines of Christianity will bring the whole house of cards tumbling down, we believe we must take the plunge and try something new.

Zartochrestianism as outlined on these pages is our best attempt so far to create a new framework for a religious tradition with a spiritual impulse recognizable to existing Christians.

Our hope is that having reformed our religious foundations we will not have to jettison all the cultural work of the ages in the Christian tradition, and that much of what has been developed in the past can still be found relevant to those following the new pathway.

Zartochrestianism is under continual development and only time will tell if current teaching will prove itself. Yet surely it is worth the effort to try.

Marcus Zartianus - May 4025 HE