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ras amlak, giving thanks, i will reason on your question in a bit, but first i want to say this.
and this is just an opinion, which like all opinion is subject to change.
i often ask myself what does it mean to an African who was born in Africa and one who has never left its shores relate to repatriation? now reparations for the continent i can deal with and overs, cause the wealth of Europeans belong to Africa and the other exploited countries of the world where they have gone. but for an African in Africa to reason about his/her "repatriation" seems some what out of place, having never left Africa.
As with Ethiopia...not all of Ethiopia is orthodox christian, there are also the evangelists en mass, and other tribal beliefs, many many Ethiopians will call Rastafari crazy and out of place when Rastafari speaks of HIM Haile Selassie as a divine incarnation.
the enchantment of reggae music and ganja has also attracted lot of Ethiopian youth. i am in doubt that one would find an elder Ethiopian "Rastafari" who is not from the caribbean or America and who was born in Ethiopia and never left, i dont believe that the spiritually of Rastafari existed in Ethiopia before the coming of the Rastafari people from the caribbean and America to Ethiopia. history has shown us that any people who are in migratory mode, travel with their culture to their destination.
the question is...how did Africa survive before the coming of the Europeans? we know from the Ethiopian story of the baptism of the Ethiopian enoch as to how Christianity entered Ethiopia.there is also hisory on how Islam entered Africa.
there is no question in my mind that the "christ" philosophy is of Kemetic/Egyptian origins, and that it was exported out of Kemet thru the European ruler of Egypt Poletemy (not sure if that is how it is spelt) and his invention of the Serapis ideology. the resembelance of Serapis (Poletemy) and mordern day paintings of "jesus" are remarkably similar.
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