Bob Marley and Peter Tosh coming soon to a church near you!
Alright, it's true I like these two guys. Reggae music is a beatifully simple art form with it's roots in a type of non-violent protest. They were singing about the oppression of their people by the government and the church. Jamaica in particular has been a case study of how a local citizenry can be exploited in the name of cash and tourism. In the early days they were exploited for their muscles and brought as slaves to work the cane industry.
Because of this, and maybe some "visions" from their ritualistic use of marijuana, a new religion was formed, Rastafarianism. They regard themselves as conforming to how Africans should live as if they had never been brought into slavery. They believe Haile Selassie 1, the former emperor of Ethiopia is God incarnate, whom they call Jah. The name Rastafari comes from: Ras-(head, or Duke in Ethiopian) and Tafari Makonnen-Haile Salassie's pre-coronation name. They believe that Jah, is the 225th in an unbroken line of Ethiopian monarchs descended from the offspring of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. This, they argue, gives him the right to the titles: King of King's, Lord of Lords's and conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah.
OK, there it is in a nutshell and there may be some errors, forgive me. My point of this whole blog is, yes, I like reggae music but............
...is going a little too far, dontcha think? True we play some secular music before services but never in our times of worship and praise! Added to the hymnal's? Again, another sign of taking the whole "reaching out to another culture" thing a little to far.
2 comments:
what? are you mad? Bob is far more worthy of entry into the hymn books than so many of the songs that are in the average hymnal. I think God is honored by His children's honoring of Him - judge not
I'm convinced that God likes more music than anyone could possibly know.
you'll trip when we get to heaven and there's a grindcore band rocking praises to God, and Jesus is in the mosh having a blast.
I'm all for all forms of music praising Him including reggae and grindcore, but Bob and Peter's music was, like I explained, rebellious, anti gov't and anti church. Did you not read anything? God's going to have have music in heaven that praises a mortal man who thinks he's God incarnate and King of Kings?
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