Greetings All + blessed Love
KnowThyself this is a good point, that TTI does follow the bible and promote reading 1 chapter a day, this Mansion of Ras TafarI is not far from christian ideologies as it is... Although not mentioning Haile Selassie I as God when talking to a christian priest is not exactly an indicator of his views on Selassie I. Many lyrics of Bob's music would show that Selassie I is JAH in Bob's mind and heart. Another thing I read (I think it was in one of the chapters of Chanting Down Babylon) that Bob's mother was the one who urged him to be baptised in the EOTC before his passing. Garveys Afrika makes a good point too, a person who knows their end is coming often makes concessions, especially for a worried family member.
I see babylonians try to use this baptism and misconstrue it into something else all the time, as a discreditor to Marley, Ras TafarI, or ganJAH. One lady even told me that Bob spoke out against "drugs and marijuana" at the end of his life... Apparently she didnt know that Bob was speaking against alcohol and drugs the entire time (and I have never seen any substantiation to her claim that he ever disavowed the hola Herb). Christians seem to think that a baptism must mean a complete adherance to the rest of their (not even biblical) policies. It doesnt. Bob's baptism in the EOTC church is not detrimental to Ras TafarI, a fact obvious to I&I when I sIght how the movement has grown since that time. Ras TafarI ever Rising
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