Rastafarians aren’t just hippies with good weed, good music and a spiritual worldview. The religion also includes a lot of misogyny and homophobia (which appears to have come from the Old Testament as translated through British Victorian-era Christianity). That’s assuming one looks at the actual Afro-Caribbean syncretic religion, rather than “rastafarianism” as it’s given by clueless white dudes who like to get high but want to feel spiritual about it.

bionicjoey@lemmy.ca · 61 pts · 1y

An Abrahamic religion based around worshipping a hereditary monarch is problematic? Colour me amazed.

anon6789@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I've been starting to learn some Afro-Latin jazz as part of my piano study, and it's gotten me into listening to reggae as well, and I've really been enjoying it. There were naturually a ton of repeat references to things I knew nothing about. The Wikipedia page on Rastafarianism was enough for me and a Youtube video about the significance of Haile Selassie to the belief system instantly set off a whole bunch of conspiracy theory alarm bells.

I'm not in the market for any religion, but even if I were, I don't think this would be in my top 3. I'll stick with learning piano instead.

ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Piano is a good religion to have.

anon6789@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Not too many situations that would not be improved with some piano!

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 1y

Thanks for the educational PSA. Sad to see but good to know.

unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y

this came up on the Hood Politics podcast, episode had something about Zionism in the title

M137@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

How do you not know of all the bad shit surrounding Rastafarianism?

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 1y