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CHRISTAFARI's
FRUITS
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critisized, Mark Christafari
Mohr points out to what he
calls "the fruits of my
efforts". These
"fruits" turn out
to be either dead or jailed
Jamaicans. |
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| "the
fruit of my
efforts. People are getting
saved." |
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| "In
past years I have gone into
the Gully and led rude boys
to Christ. Upon arriving in
the upper part I was
disappointed to learn that all
but one of the guys
that I had brought to Christ
on my past trips were either
dead or in prison." |
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| "Selassie
worshippers are regularly
coming to Christ." |
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| "For
14 years I went on mission
trips to Jamaica and never
met one "Rasta"
that denounced the divinity
of Haile Selassie." |
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CHRISTAFARIANS:
FANS AND/OR FOLLOWERS
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| There's
a lot of babylon
(con-fusion) about the
meaning of the term or word
Christafarian(s). See the
different definitions, all
given by the Christafarian
himself. |
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| "It
is not my desire, nor has it
ever to make little
Christafarians, out of our
fan-base." |
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| "Christafari
is NOT a mixture of
Rastafari and Christianity.
It means community of Jesus.
Do you also belong to Jesus?
Then throw your hands in the
air. Yeah" (Dutch
Newspaper "Trouw"
quotes Christafari claiming
from a Duch army-sponsored
stage) |
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| "missionaries,
fellow 'Christafarians',
people who believe in our
vision and our mission
statement." |
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| "When
I think of the term "Christafarian,"
I think about a supporter or
admirer of our music. Not a
convert that has been
conformed to my ways." |
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| "It
is my wish to see our
listeners (and all who have
ears to hear) come in
agreement with the Holy
Scriptures as outlined in
the Nicene Creed and
as I have described in our
teaching statement." |
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DISCREDITING
HAILE SELASSIE
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| The
Emperor of Ethiopiah is a
repeated subject of scorn
with the Christafarian. Mark
Mohr calls the Emperor an
"Elect of Himself"
and goes further by calling
The Ethiopian Emperor a
"trickster" and
"murderer", all
the while denying in public
that he is discrediting the
Emperor. Still, in private,
he admits that he does. |
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"After
Ras Tafari had became
Governor he wanted to become
king so he took an
army of 16,000 men and
deployed them against the
existing Empress. (...)
Shortly, after Ras Tafari's
army killed her husband, his
army, and two days later she
was mysteriously murdered.
(..)
In Selassie's title the
words "Elect of
God" keep ringing in my
head, for a
king is supposed to be
chosen by God and given
authority to rule. Selassie
was
elect of himself. It is
Royal tradition to be chosen
or appointed as king and be
crowned by someone of
authority (other than
oneself). Haile Selassie
arbitrarily
took the throne by force,
through trickery and even
murder (White 36). He chose
himself and crowned himself
despite public opinion. Even
if he was Elect by God,
according to the New
Testament, Almighty God
would not have chosen for
things to
have happened in this
manner."
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SOURCE: MARK
MOHR, in the previously
released book which caused
the Buju Incident
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| "When
I wrote my book, I was
trying to proof Selassie is
not God by discrediting
him." |
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MARK MOHR, in a private
phone conversation with
Messian Dread |
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| Robert
Nelson wrote:
"For a long time on
this group, the word was
that Christafari was passing
out anti-Selassie/anti-Rasta
literature at the Sunpslash
shows."
Christafari Responds:
This is fiction. No
Christafari member has ever
handed out
anti-Selassie/anti-Rasta
literature at any Sunpslash
show."
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| PROMOTING
THE RASTA VS. CHRISTIAN
PARADIGM |
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though the Christafarian is
forced to acknowledge that
Rastafari is not the anti-christ
religion he claims it to be,
he continues by perpetuating
the self-created gap between
him and Rastafarians by
calling Rasta's either Idol
Worshippers (Selassie or the
Trinity is an idol according
to the Christafarian) or
deceivers.
By his
self-acknowledgement of
Rastafarians as Christians,
he is contradicting his own
constant statements
concerning unity. For he
calls people who he
acknowledges as
"Christian"
"deceivers"
without any reason.
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| "We
by no means are trying to
seperate ourselves from all
rastas saying that we
are right and they are
wrong." |
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| "Christafari
is NOT a mixture of
Rastafari and Christianity.
It means community of Jesus.
Do you also belong to Jesus?
Then throw your hands in the
air. Yeah" (Dutch
Newspaper "Trouw"
quotes Christafari claiming
from a Duch army-sponsored
stage) |
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| "I
love Rastafarians and I pray
for them often. I do not
view them as racist or
hateful people, nor would
I ever say such a thing to
the press." |
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| (ASSOCIATED
PRESS) Mark Mohr has a
snappy slogan to
differentiate his band
from the many others that
play reggae music. "I
read The Word," he says
with a laugh. "I don't
smoke the herb." |
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| "They
will know that we are
Christians by our love. A
house divided against
itself cannot stand." |
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| "Though
there are some rastas that
are Christians and some
Christians that call
themselves rastas" |
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| "I
personally believe that it
is seriously misleading for
a Christian to call
themselves a
"Rasta." |
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| "I
do acknowledge that
there are certain self
proclaimed Rastas that deny
the divinity of Haile
Selassie and believe that
Jesus is Lord. I praise God
for these brothers in the
Lord that have seen the
truth." |
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| "However,
I still do not agree with a
Christian calling himself a
"Rastafarian." I
personally view this as misleading
and a compromise of
verses such as Psalm 16:4.
Though I love these
brothers, I am in sharp
disagreement with such an
approach." |
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BUJU
BANTON INCIDENT
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| When
Mark Mohr joined the New
World Order University
called BIOLA, a university
that brags to be "BushCountry",
he took a course in
"cults". During
this course, he wrote a
booklet on the movement of
Rastafari as well as the
Ethiopian Emperor. In this
book, he scorned at
everything he didn't
overstand, and discredited
everything in Rastafari
which opposes the anti-christ
religion that is preached at
Universities like BIOLA. But
in public he denies this
all. |
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| "No
Christafari member has ever
handed out
anti-Selassie/anti-Rasta
literature at any
Sunpslash show." |
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| "This
is Mark Mohr From
Christafari. Buju never
grabbed a book from me
or from any other member of
Christafari. |
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| "At
the completion of my first
booklet titled Rastafari and
the Bible (An Eschatological
Study of the Second Coming),
we, (Christafari) began
making my writings available
at our shows in booklet form.
It was after we joined the
46 city Reggae Sunsplash
Tour that I faced an
overwhelming amount of
persecution for my beliefs
and writings. After all
of the other artists on the
tour read my booklet the
verbal abuse and spiritual
attacks began." |
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