Rastafari Case

The Rastafari movement is being spread all over the world today; many people throughout the world today have a hard time understanding the Rastafari culture and their way of life. Most people think that the Rastafari persons are people that live in Jamaica and all they do is smoke weed and sport dreadlocks with long beard and only consider it as a religion. The Rastafari movement is more than just a religion; it is a social movement as well a mind set and a way of life of these individuals.

The religion is difficult to categorize because it is not a centralized one, it is left up to the individual Rastafarian to work out the truth for themselves and that results in a wide variety of beliefs entering beneath the general umbrella of Rasatafari.

There are 12 mansions in the Rastafari religion, meaning, 12 different branches, where everyone has a different views and perspective about the world and how they view His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Haile Selassie I and also the teachings of Marcus Garvey as well. The most popular three of them all is the Twelve Tribe of Israel, which is the largest mansion in the movement, also the Niyabinghi, and the Bobo Shanti. There are many Rastafari persons that are not attached to any of these mansions, but their way of life, and the mind set that they have would be attached to the faith of the Rastafari religion or movement. Even though there are different perspectives among the mansions of the Rastafari movement, Rastafari persons do share common terminology and a common commitment to the idea that Rastafari is the climax of God's revelation, but there are Rastafari persons you will hear talk about the bible and the teachings of the bible, while on the other hand you have other Rastafari persons that don't believe in the bible and the teachings of it, and you have other rastafari persons that believe in only a small portion of the bible. But why is this so? Why is it some believe and some don't?