Rastafarianism
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Submitted by kiznash on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Rastafarianism
Is a religious spawn of chrisianity which also serves as a political mmovement. The main assumption is that the late King of Ethiopia Hallie Sallie I was the the second coming of christ on earth. They believed this because of the scriptual passage which refers to revelation 5.5. "Weep not behold the lion of the tribe of Judha, the root root of David." Hallie Sallie I was claimed to have been a direct decent of the tribe of Judha and King Solomn thus David.
Also an assumption was made to further backing of this based on the scriptures in the book of Isaiah chapter 43 refering to the lord and Ethiopia. Based on correlations between passages from the Bible and thr King of Ethiopia. Many such assumptions were made to back the belief that King H. Sallie I was the reincarnaton of christ himself. As a spirtual philosophy Rasta- is linked to run away slaves and derived from both the African Myal religion and the Revivalist Zion churchs. Like the revivalist movement it imbraces the 400- year old Doctrine of repartriation. Rastas believe that and all Africans who have migrated are but exiles in "Babylon" and are destined to be delivered out of captivity by a return to Zion or Africa the land of there ancestors and the seat of Ja Ras Tafari himself, H. Sallie 1, The former emperor of Ethiopia. Upon researching this movement of rastafarianism I found it to be rich in cultural, Ethnic, and historical information. A movement born of opression and used as a great motivator to distressed people; with a romatic notion that the incarnated christ was himself alive as a black man. Surprising by, However in an interview with the late King of Ethiopia H. Sallie I when asked , How do you feel that the movement of rastafari reverre you as christ. How do you feel about that? Selasi exclaimed only: "man shall not...
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