With as late a POD as possible, have at least ten million self-identifying Zoroastrians worldwide by the year 2000.
Maybe Turkish tribes convert to Zoroastrianism.The latest time you could probably go to for a large population of Zoroastrians is a 9th century Zoroastrian rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate. If you want to get into the implausible then maybe a tribe on the steppe converts, conqueres large swathes of land, and imposes Zoroastrianism on the population top down but this is more unlikely.
Maybe Turkish tribes convert to Zoroastrianism.
If you really want a pod as late as possible couldn't Freddie Mercury convert to zoroastrianism and it becomes some kind of celebrity religion? I mean he was Parsi after all.
Scientology has only 30,000 members and they have a lot of celebritiesIf you really want a pod as late as possible couldn't Freddie Mercury convert to zoroastrianism and it becomes some kind of celebrity religion? I mean he was Parsi after all.
I don't think Freddie Mercury could hit a million believers but Scientology is a dangerous cult while Zoroastrianism is just a normal religion which would be westernized if it became a meme religion in the west anyway.Scientology has only 30,000 members and they have a lot of celebrities