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Haile Selassie means "Power of the Trinity".
Obviously, for Christians it is not so difficult
to identify the Lord God and Saviour Yesus
Kristos, because is it not so that He told us:
"Unto Me is given all power in Heaven and on
Earth"? But this self-proclaimed Christian who
wrote the comment on the Dubroom, was not
denying that.
He, or she, was referring to the Ethiopian
Emperor Tafari Makonnen, who was crowned Haile
Selassie in the 1930's. And to the fact that
many, but not all, within the Movement named
after Ras (Head) Tafari, believe that this
Ethiopian Emperor is in fact what his name and
title mean.
The Ethiopian Emperor himself, however, never
claimed to be what his names and titles mean. In
fact, he strongly denied being Jah and boldly
proclaimed to be a Christian himself. The
Emperor did make claims of being a descendant of
King David, though, a claim that many believe to
be true.
In spite of popular belief, not all Rasta's
believe the Ethiopian Emperor to be God, either.
Take Gadman, the leader of the biggest Rasta
Organization in the world. In an interview with
Jamaican Radio Station IRE FM, he made
statements concerning the fact that he made a
differentiation between the Emperor and Jesus
Christ and how one could only be saved by the
Blood of Jesus Christ.
Yours truly is also of the belief that the
Ethiopian Emperor is not what his names mean,
which is widely known. Being the transcriber of
the authorized transcription of Gadman's
interview, being the Webmaster of a website
where the Emperor can be heard denying he is
Jah, I can hardly be "accused" of believing His
Imperial Majesty to be JAH.
So, what made this person write that comment
which provoked this article? An answer may be
found in a comment on yet another website, where
someone posted the following description of me:
Messian Dread, a Zeph Daniel close,
Rastafarian, etc. Yeah right, he's someone I
want to listen to. (LINK)
The comment was made by a
self-proclaimed Christian who apparantly did not
agree with statements I made concerning Michael
Tsarion, a New Age propagandist and apologist
for such evil men as Aleister Crowley.
Apart from the fact that for the sake of this
article it is not so important who Michael
Tsarion is and so on, it is interesting to read
the ad hominem argument as it came. If
you can't win the argument, you start attacking
the person and this time I was being accused for
being a "Rastafarian".
It's very interesting, to read how apparantly
"being a Rastafarian" is a reason for a
self-proclaimed "Christian" to not listen to
what I have to say.
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