Propaganda
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It would be the same in the Caribbean for the Rastadim, but they looking back at Selassie. It is Rastafarianism is by definition anti-colonial, obviously. And they believe that Africa is their, not only their, their literal ancestral homeland, but it's their spiritual homeland. And the country of Ethiopia gets a particular reverence because of the
the role it played in the 19th century for the resistance of, because of Selassie, for the resistance of European imperialism. Everybody else fell. Ethiopia didn't. So the gold, green, and red colors of the modern Ethiopia flag are the traditional colors of the Rastafarian because it can in some ways get its roots from there, right?
Okay, I know that was a long preamble, but you got to understand what he's telling me. So once you have this understanding of your connection to Judaism, practice, anti-colonial, you know, dispersed, taken away from your homeland, and longing for a return to your promised land, now we could talk about what Zion is. Now, Rastafarian has two basic tentpoles. Zion, Babylon.
You hear that stuff in all the reggae you listen to, right? So these are the theological ideological tentpoles. The dichotomy is tied again to the anti-colonial Because Babylon, remember, again, in your Old Testament, is the symbol of the evil powers, the evil empire, just like in the Bible. It's the epitome. It is everything that's wrong in the world. It's the system.
is symbolized in King Nebuchadnezzar and the kingdom of Babylon. And we long to see Babylon fall. We chant down this worldly system that enslaves and attacks and seeks to control not only the outward person, but the inside of you. What Christians would call your sin nature. Worldly Babylon, right?
So if you're following, again, the saga of the Old Testament, Israel fleeing Egypt or getting away from Egypt, becoming free, and then being enslaved by Babylon again. Babylon's the problem. Does that make sense? Now in the Bible, Zion is just another name for Jerusalem, right? And it can refer to the land of Israel fully.
Now, the Rastafarian, okay, this is where our difference is, repurposed the biblical definition to an Afrocentric direction. For the Rasta, Zion is the continent of Africa, specifically Ethiopia. But the term represents not just Ethiopia, a physical place because Ethiopia is just Ethiopia. But it's an ideal. It's what we would call to become cross. This is paradise.
This is thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Zion, heaven and earth meets. So it's physical and so much more, which in a lot of ways is the same for the Jew. But we'll get to that.
it is the destruction of a worldly system and the raising of a selected godly kingdom where all of us what we would talk about the christians would talk about the kingdom of god is righteousness peace and joy in the holy ghost is to be a part of the kingdom so it's a both place and it's an idea to strive for right where the rastas they would equate with preserving and glorifying black african culture
right the iron lion of zion you know bob marley's you know song but for more information like rastafari is kind of like like how we have denominations theirs is divided into mansions and they got it from like the gospel of john when jesus says in my father's house there are many mansions right again i'm telling it's an abrahamic faith a lot of people don't think it's just a it's a black
anti-colonial African outpour of it. So you have the Bobo, the Ashanti, the Twelve Tribes. That's a denomination, if you will. They were called the Twelve Tribes of Israel. I never pronounce it right, but the Naya... the Naya Bbingi, like I never pronounce it right, but they're a certain type. Now some, again, some look more traditional than others.
And then a lot of people just follow like an individual like Rasta way of viewing it. But at the end of the day, Ethiopia is for lack of better term, the New Jerusalem. This is Zion when we're talking about Rastadim, okay? Now, what the Zionists believe next. All right, we're back. Now, Zionism, the overall name for right now, if you're pro-Palestine, that's the name of the bad guys.
They're Zionists. And people have tried to separate the idea of anti-Semitism from Zionists, being anti-Zionists, that these are different things. Now, that would mean that you'd have to understand all those things and their history from them. Now, I'm trying to handle this with as much respect as I can because I'm talking about a culture that's not mine.
So please grant me that grace that I'm probably going to overlook. Like I said in the beginning, I'm probably going to overlook some stuff that I'm not trying to overlook. I'm trying to give as best as I can an understanding of these different things. Anti-Semite justice. I mean, those are the Nazis. You just don't believe that. It's a type of thing.
It's a type of overall term for the concept of the convolution of this weird idea that all that is wrong. It's almost like you've made the Jew Babylonian. You know what I'm saying? Like we just talked about. They are everything that's wrong. They are both the killers of Jesus. They are the vermin that... I'm trying to describe anti-Semitism.
The religion and the ethnicity that somehow or another... is poor and subhuman, but also quietly controls all of the inner workings of money and power in the world. And your only solution is to wipe them out. That would be anti-Semitic.
That's the idea of that, that comes from this thing called the Protocols of Zion, which again, the word Zion, I'm gonna talk about, which is something that we've talked about on the Behind the Bastards episodes of the Protocols of Zion. Now, That's anti-Semitic.
Now, once we get into... Now, if you remember one of the You Wasn't Outside episodes when we pulled a clip of a rabbi explaining the idea of what makes a Jew... a Jew, according to the faith, is their covenant with Yahweh. That it's not necessarily a location. As a matter of fact, to see it as a location is to minimize it.
Where he was like, the promised land, our claim is because we are in covenant with Yahweh. And that can happen anywhere. The location don't matter. So to say that the capital has to be in Jerusalem or has to be in Tel Aviv because that's God's will is, he's like, no, you're missing the point. Like who cares where a modern nation state plants? Like that's a secular system.
That is like the Rastadim would say that is Babylon to worry about what other nations say. I am a part of the kingdom and the kingdom exists now. Because I am in covenant with Yahweh. We are a covenant people. That's what makes, that's what gives us our Jewishness is our covenant with Yahweh. Who cares what the borders are? That would be a specific type of Judaism, right?
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