Rastafari

>>2348629
Probably a combination of the two, and it's fucking retarded.

>>2348629
Selassie himself denied being the reborn saviour, thus he is not at fault for the cult. He was just seen as fulfillment of Garvey's "prophecy". I view it as a black emancipation movement based on christianity with added african elements like the Kebra Negast. Rastafarianism is a very small religion anyway with ~1% of the Jamaican population as a following.

>>2348738
>Rastafarianism is a very small religion anyway with ~1% of the Jamaican population as a following.
Like Jews they're over represented.

>>2348742
I prefer Reggae over Klezmer desu

>>2348738
There are far more Jehovah's Witnesses than Rastas in Jamaica.

>>2348758
too bad only 144k of them will enter heaven. Even on Jamaica there are more Jehova's Witnesses than Rastas (2% of the population).

>>2348629

In Jamaica, the rastafarians are literally bums who live on trash heaps and are the absolute bottom of society.

>>2348772
b-b-but muh weed lmao

>>2348758
Well that explains my step grandmother.

>>2348771
>too bad only 144k of them will enter heaven

The rest will live on a paradise on Earth according to the religion

t. ex-JW

>>2348803
Grats for leaving that sect and thanks for that clarification.

>>2348772
>implying there is someone in Jamaica who isn't the absolute bottom of society

>>2348837
rude

>>2348629
>Is it an Afrocentric interpretation of Christianity?
No, they have some christian elements but they are neither many nor are they that important. Mostly jewish stuff.

> Is it Haile Selassie's foreign cult of personality?
Yes, with the irony that he was a very devout christian, told them to stop and even built two coptic churches in Jamaica to make them stop

>>2348629
An interesting thing about Rastas is that they have developed a jargon of Jamaican Patois that removes and modifies words and syllables that have negative connotations and change them to positive ones.

>>2348931
While Protestantism is he most "modern jewry" form of Christianity, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church is the most "ancient Jewry" form of Christianity.

>>2349141
And rastafari is not derived from the ethiopian church but their own misinterpretation of the OT

>>2348629
>Haile Selassie
Are you referring to King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, and Root of David, Jah Rastafari?