RE: Question about Rastafari Movement
January 27, 2012 at 7:56 pm
(This post was last modified: January 27, 2012 at 7:57 pm by AthiestAtheist.)
(January 27, 2012 at 2:18 pm)Minimalist Wrote: It's a Jamaican excuse to get stoned. It's got something to do with worshiping Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.Being probably the only person around with direct experience of that, I thought I would have to come in and explain it, but pretty much yeah. I couldn't have explained it better myself.
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife
