Robert Nesta Marley, O.M.
Re: Marley's Wife Plans to Exhume Remains
Why? To bury him in his "spiritual resting place": Ethiopia.
What is not mentioned in the article is that Bob Marley was baptized into the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, at the behest of his wife Rita (notice the Ethiopian cross she's wearing), and given the name Berhane Selassie*. Thus, Bob Marley left this world not as a Rastafarian, but as a Christian.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church rejects "the heresy of emperor worship" and the "herbal sorcery" of the Rastafarian cult. His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I himself was the one who established the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Jamaica.
[For more about this, see The Ethiopian Orthodox Church & Bob Marley's Baptism And The Church. For an interesting appraisal of Rastafarianism vis-à-vis the Roman Catholic Church, see Contradictions of Rastafarianism, which notes that the Rt. Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jamaican Black Nationalist and "prophet" of Rastafarianism, "converted to Roman Catholicism, and remained an active practising Catholic until his death."]
* Selassie is Amharic for "Trinity"
Re: Marley's Wife Plans to Exhume Remains
Why? To bury him in his "spiritual resting place": Ethiopia.
What is not mentioned in the article is that Bob Marley was baptized into the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, at the behest of his wife Rita (notice the Ethiopian cross she's wearing), and given the name Berhane Selassie*. Thus, Bob Marley left this world not as a Rastafarian, but as a Christian.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church rejects "the heresy of emperor worship" and the "herbal sorcery" of the Rastafarian cult. His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I himself was the one who established the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Jamaica.
[For more about this, see The Ethiopian Orthodox Church & Bob Marley's Baptism And The Church. For an interesting appraisal of Rastafarianism vis-à-vis the Roman Catholic Church, see Contradictions of Rastafarianism, which notes that the Rt. Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jamaican Black Nationalist and "prophet" of Rastafarianism, "converted to Roman Catholicism, and remained an active practising Catholic until his death."]
* Selassie is Amharic for "Trinity"
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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