jeudi 8 décembre 2011

Rastas follow the version of the Bible accepted by Anglicans (King James Bible), but some parts are challenging, considering that it was rewritten for the benefit of whites. So they use the Holy Piby, rewritten version of the Bible in the early twentieth century by Robert Aathlyi Rogers, whose aim is to prove that Christ and all the children of Israel are black.The foundations of the Rasta culture can be found in the Bible. Indeed, a Rastafarian spirituality is claiming its attachment to the foundations of the Bible, Old and New Testaments. Rastas see themselves in the Bible and used it constantly. Thus, it is customary for the first occupation of a Rasta is to raise the reading of a chapter of the Bible, as the saying goes: "A chapter a day Keeps the devil away", ie: a chapter a day keeps the Devil away.Some passages in the Bible are very important in rasta beliefs. Thus, the second exodus to Babylon, and the first destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem is for the rastas incarnation of their exile from Africa, slaves of the Babylonians were the modern British settlers. This explains the concept of Babylon, which is the metaphor for the operation of Jews by the Babylonians. Then, by extension, the concept will spread to all aspects in the society they reject imported by the colonists, as materialism, money, capitalism, the police ... Again, the limits of the concept is rather vague and can vary from one to another rasta.Always inspired by the Bible (Jeremiah 51), Rastas often think that Western civilization has lost the core values ​​(nature, respect, love each other ...) in favor of a company based on money, personal success and more and more distant from nature. Thus, in the same way that God had destroyed the city of Babylon who had sinned by excess of pride, Rastas prophesy the downfall of the system ("shitstem") of Babylon.The texts of the Bible are the foundation of Rastafarian beliefs, such as Rivers of Babylon, Psalm 137.But they believe that the Bible is only half of their story: "Half the story HAS told3 Never Been." The other half lies in the heart of each.

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