“...but the issue at hand is the religion espoused by Bob Marley,”
The issue is not the religion espoused by Marley. The issue is the descent of colonial countries into chaos and anarchy.
Rastafarianism is a symptom of the revolt of Marley and the poor Jamaicans against the historical colonial chains of Protestant Britain.
The drug trade in Jamaica makes Mexico look tame.
and the mess in Haiti has vanished off the MSM, and that’s a Catholic colony. in fact every French colony had Catholic influence because at the time of colonialism it was France sending out all it’s Vatican emissaries to the new lands.