IRIE reasonings Idren! Thoroughly enjoying! And though I may get weary of the bible discussions...LOL...it depends on the context. If we are approaching it from an Afrikan ourstorical and cosmological perspective, with the overstanding of InI Ancestors, and not out of blind faith, then the reasonings become full of life to I. Using a musical metaphor, the difference to I is like walking into a Roman catholic church service and listening to the heavy, depressive and oppressive drone and babble of their "music" versus walking into a Binghi, where the AFRIKAN SPIRIT will move and shake you.
Brothah Garveys, if my intuition is correct, the quote you mention by John Henrik Clarke may have been a quote I posted in my "Religious Fanaticism: Is Rasta Guilty" thread in which I quote the following, which by the way, and I should have given the bredren his due RAspect, is by Ras Jahaziel, in which he beautifully states:
"Throughout the long history of black struggle for liberation there have always emerged leaders who became "GODS" AND "MESSIAHS". Their exalted status of honor and worship has been in most cases A RESPONSE TO THE SHEEP MENTALITY'S NEED FOR SOMEONE TO WORSHIP. In their SHEEP MENTALITY the people yearn for someone who will be SUPER-MAN, someone who will miraculously do all that they themselves fear to do or fail to do. This IRRESPONSIBLE condition opens the door wide for THOSE THAT CRAVE WORSHIP, and a circle of RELIGIOUS FANATICISM evolves to become an obstacle in the path of that liberation which both leader and follower claim to be pursuing."
Bob Marley’s used to sing “NONE CAN FREE OUR MINDS, BUT OURSELVES.”
RASTAFARI
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