Do you have to be black to be a rasta?

"Y should any religion discriminate anyway?"
I know, huh? And yet...



Ras Tafari six fundamental principles:
- Hatred for the white race.

- The complete superiority of the black race.

- Revenge on whites for their wickedness.

- The negation, persecution, and humiliation of the government and legal bodies of Jamaica.

- Preparation to go back to Africa, and

- Acknowledging Emperor Haile Selassie as the Supreme Being and only ruler of black people.

~according to rastafari "universal prophet" Leonard Howell.

 

" - Hatred for the white race.

- The complete superiority of the black race.

- Revenge on whites for their wickedness."

where did you find this information???????
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Why, do you doubt that it exists? Are you rasta and never encountered this?
I think that's interesting...

Here's Howell's The Promised Key
http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/tpk/index.htm

which is a condensed version of The Royal Parchment Scroll of Black Surpemacy...
http://www.sacred-texts.com/afr/rps/index.htm

Selassie denounced racism, but, as we all know, religions sometimes stray from their original intent.
Rastafarianism is an Afro-centric,specifically Ethiopian, religion that has many interesting branches; mainly Garveyites and followers(whether conscious of it or not) of Howell, who was racist and believed that Salassie was the messiah who fulfilled all old testament prophecy which was mistakingly attributed to Christ.

 

Christ was the ultimate apothecary. IF you want to be a rasta just be a true christian. You can smoke weed and take drugs.

If you want dredlocks make them.

IF you want to support a black ethnocentric spinoff of Christianity then its up to you.

Just be a Christian. Even Bob Marley talked of a one love religion, beyond ISMS.
Sick and tired of Ism schism.

Being a rasta is just following another Ism.

Whatever though I don't personally have a problem with it, but like my bushido/samurai comparison I feel that there are other ways to be a Christian and smoke weed and have long hair and dreds without having to classify yourself as a "Rasta".

 

That's right.

 

well said you two, i said similer and was accused of bashing.

 

do you guys really believe that it is all about long hair and dreads?

my husband follows rasta very closely, and is by no means a christian, nor is he white...and heron, i did not mean to cause bad blood...but please do not think that any white person believes in it because of reggae or bob or kaya, or whatever else...

 

Ok now i am confused, i thought that Rasta generally consider the Old and New Testiments to be true and are therfore Christian. If this is not so then what do Rasta believe?

 

i meant to say, nor is he black...

rasta tends to be a leaderless religion...my husband does not believe that jesus christ was the messiah, since he was not of king david's line, so, instead, H.I.M. is the living god.

 

Well if you beleive in the conspiracy somewhat hinted at in Da Vinci Code he was of King Davids line. Mary Magdeline was of the House of Benjamin.

Their offspring sarah was a mixture of the two bloodlines and the true leader. Not Selassie. Who is only a Davidic Descendant via solomon and a Queen with no ancient Royal Affiliations.

 

H.I.M.? that shitty emo band with the heart star thingy? ewww =P

 

I hope your kidding...His Imperial Majesty

 

of course i was kiddin, thats why i stuck my tounge out.

 

SO, your husband honestly believes that whats his name prime minister guy is the semitic messiah the bible predicted? Why didnt he help the Jews out then?

Im sorry, but thats, well, retarded. Jesus is the better candidate by far, at least he tried to start a revolution. But, whatever you want i guess.

 

"do you guys really believe that it is all about long hair and dreads?"

Of course not. In fact, my post indicates that far more than outward appearances are necessary.
And the majority of rastafarians DO believe in the old testament, interpreted in a different way, ie. Selassie as messiah, again, dictated by the OT prophecy, ie white establishment as Babylon, reference to Zion etc. All come from the OT.

 

" Why didnt he help the Jews out then?"
Excellent...

 

How can you be living "as close to the earth as possible" when you're sitting behind a computer?Just curious.

 

What revolution? Jesus is just as poor of a candiate as a messiah as you or me or Heile Sellassie...The only account that we have of Jesus is the account of four of his closest friends and followers who did not write his story as it happened, but instead wrote the story from complete memory up to 40 years later

It is like an old fisherman who keeps telling the same story, and fish keeps getting bigger...

I'm sorry, just like debating christianity, it will come down to faith...

We will never convice you, you will never convince us!

 

study jesus more. he was a revolutionary leader.

Im not christian, i think its all bullshit, your beliefs fall under that same umbrella.

 

the same revolutionary leader that when his apostels tried to save him from the rabbis told them no?

please...every time a people are oppressed there will be a person that stands up and teaches things that are considered revolutionary...Jesus was the then called Jews answer...but even he did not fill the prophecies that were supossed to describe the messiah!