Rastafarian history and ideology is patently absurd. I didn't think I needed to point out that Haile Selassie isn't God and that there is no documentation for the claim that the mythical Menelik took possession of the Ark.
I definitely pointed out that Garvey was a criminal convicted of mail fraud.
i also pointed out the involvement of Rastafarians in the street gangs that terrorized Kingston in the 1970s and ever since.
What’s astounding about what you’ve written is you write as if you’ve accepted every ounce of spin some pot-headed Marxist university professor ever spun.
How so? Please cite some evidence for this sweeping claim.
That word states that something TRUE happened which was told of beforehand.
No, it means that someone made a prediction.
That wording indicates he was prohetic!
No, it indicates that since he was a failure as a political force, he decided to adopt the mode or style of a prophet as a face-saving alternative.
No one reading my post objectively would conclude that I was arguing that Marcus Garvey was actually a prophet.
But like crackpot religions, the culture of the religion supplanted those initial core beliefs, which now seem secondary.
As I stated above, Rastafarianism is completely disorganized. No two Rastafarians ever seem to have had the exact same doctrinal beliefs.
A lot of Rastafarians have actually gone on to convert to traditional Monophysitism, due mostly to the doctrinal confusion of Rastafarianism.
That’s the only reason Rasta survives. It’s the emotionalism of religion with the promise of marijuana.
You don't need religion to have an excuse to get high.
Rastafarianism survives because it appeals to certain people's sensibilities. It will always be a small cult - even in Jamaica less than 10% of the population subscribe to it.
I wish more people would pay attention to how "rightwing" (a la the mystical nationalism) the "Left" has become. Third World leftism is indeed closer to the ideology of WWII Japan than to that of the USSR. What is "pan-Africanism" or "Afrocentrism" but rightwing Pat Buchanan blood-and-soil nationalism for Blacks? And what is Barack Obama's Afrocentric church but the counterpart of the "rightwing" kinists, reconstructionists, and identity-types to whom America is the regathered tribes of Israel and the Founding Fathers literally inspired by G-d?