Roger -
Apropos of nothing, I was looking at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_religious_groups the other day and
discovered that the Rastafari outnumber the Unitarians by about 70,000
adherents. They are locked in battle for the last place on that
particular list, though they both outnumber the Scientologists.
I was recently pulled up short when I realized that the Rastafarians
held Hailie Selassie as a contemporary Messiah, the Christian God embodied.
I had very romantic notions about the Rastafarian movement based almost
entirely on listening to Bob Marley's music.
The deliverer of this ephiphany is a friend (born Ethiopia, raised
Egypt/Australia) whose father was one of those who risked their lives to
depose Selassie back in the day. I guess I didn't listen closely enough
to Marley's Lyrics <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Lion_Zion>.
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