Riposte to ‘acceptance’

It is not uncommon "to see one person lacking an eye, another a ear, and a third a leg,” and others who have lost "the tongue, or the head.” But "men who lack everything except that they have too much of one thing – men who are nothing more than a big eye, or a big mouth, or a big belly, or something else big constitute, perhaps, a phenomenon, as amazing as it is despicable.” The quotes are from Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra. In his inimitable style Nietzsche calls such persons "reversed cripples.”
More than one generation has passed since Ervad (Dr) Kersey Antia came out with The Argument for Acceptance. The treatise earned him the reproach of Dasturs Hormazdyar Mirza, Kaikhusroo JamaspAsa and Firoze Kotwal in the form of Antia’s ‘Acceptance’: A Zoroastrian ‘Ahrmogih’ (Heresy). Closely connected with Antia’s "acceptance” is the navjote/vohujote of Joseph Peterson. The children of the 1980s are now adults who would probably be totally unaware of the "acceptance” business.
Now that Antia has thought it fit to come out with a second edition of his book (of 170 pages), perhaps the best counter would be to reprint the solidly constructed, painstakingly documented and vividly written booklet by the three dasturs mentioned above.
Who can deny the fact that our community is withering, slowly but surely? But this fact does not give carte blanche to some of our professionals to inflict an "invigorant” or a "restorative” manufactured by them.
FARIBOURZ NARIMAN