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[–] [email protected] 68 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Rastafarians aren’t just hippies with good weed, good music and a spiritual worldview. The religion also includes a lot of misogyny and homophobia (which appears to have come from the Old Testament as translated through British Victorian-era Christianity). That’s assuming one looks at the actual Afro-Caribbean syncretic religion, rather than “rastafarianism” as it’s given by clueless white dudes who like to get high but want to feel spiritual about it.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 months ago

An Abrahamic religion based around worshipping a hereditary monarch is problematic? Colour me amazed.

[–] anon6789 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've been starting to learn some Afro-Latin jazz as part of my piano study, and it's gotten me into listening to reggae as well, and I've really been enjoying it. There were naturually a ton of repeat references to things I knew nothing about. The Wikipedia page on Rastafarianism was enough for me and a Youtube video about the significance of Haile Selassie to the belief system instantly set off a whole bunch of conspiracy theory alarm bells.

I'm not in the market for any religion, but even if I were, I don't think this would be in my top 3. I'll stick with learning piano instead.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Piano is a good religion to have.

[–] anon6789 5 points 3 months ago

Not too many situations that would not be improved with some piano!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the educational PSA. Sad to see but good to know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

this came up on the Hood Politics podcast, episode had something about Zionism in the title