I don't understand Rastafarianism I guess.



The whole thing seems like a total excuse to smoke a lot of marijuana to me. However, it's probably still better than mainstream christianity (which is just an excuse to subjugate women and minorities).

If you're rasta, what you think is that Haile Selassie I (former Emperor of Ethiopia) is god incarnate who walked the earth. Somehow that translates into all people on earth loving each other through peace, brotherhood and smoking massive, massive amounts of dope.

If you're into reggae, and no white people are "really" into reggae unless you believe in the rasta, you call the bass drum a Pope Smasher or Vatican Basher because you hate catholics. And somehow, breathing in gigantic clouds of THC brings you closer to "jah".

So I totally don't get it. But I don't really understand religiosity in general, so there's no surprise there.
- posted by Mason @ 11:17 PM