In Iman opinion the most important thing about "The DaVinci Code" is that it makes clear that the "official" story and interpretation of Jesus that we have today is just one of the many different Christianities that emerged between the crucifixion and the ratification of the Roman Emperor Constantine's Nicean Creed, which defined Christianity as we know it today.
Jesus and Mary Magdelene having a baby is highly improbable, BUT so is virgin birth, the Trinity and eternal damnation for non-Christians.
A long time ago I decided that I could and would be a spiritual man and live an upright life with clean hands and a pure heart WITHOUT saying I believe things that I do not, WITHOUT ignoring the contrdictions, inconsistencies, unsubstantiated claims and hypocracies of mainstream theologies.
Cultures outside of the three Abrahamic traditions have not confused their history with their mythology and consequently they have not been so eager to kill and condemn in the name of their gods.
As long as people have proclaimed the existence of YHWH, the God of Israel, as the One True God people have been stealing, torturing and killing in His Name. Rather than adhering blindly to doctrines which teach that there is a jealous God, who must be feared and who plays favorites and allows an evil enemy to hold sway over His creation, who requires blood sacrifice to atone for the sins of His favored people, who will condemn a large proportion of humanity to eternal damnation, who requires that His followers make war, who reveals Himself through various books which we need church authorities to identify and interpret for us, Iman choose to wake up and live, to read Truth from the Book of Life and embrace Inity over division.
What does it profit InI to focus on all of the shortcomings of everyone around us, if ones can't abide peacefully on this forum amongst Rastas without all the Fyah and Yudgement, how do they get on living day by day in Babylon? One could avoid looking at ones own faults and shortcomings forever by deluding oneself into believing it is ones responsibility burn fyah pon every iniquity (usually without doing anything to actually correct the wrong).
For I, JAH is Iniversal Love, the One Desiny of All Imanity, the Door to One Perfect Love, INITY.
In I opinion, all dem Rasses who live Fyah dis and Fyah 'pon dat, judgement and condemnation, should remove the plank from dem own eye before presuming to do Jah's housecleaning. True the wicked must be called to account, but that is for JAH to do. Let InI feed the hungry, clothe the naked, nourish the sick, protect InI elders and care for InI youth. Let Babylon know InI are Rasta by InI LOVE.
What do the I's think?:
Can one be a true Child of the Almighty without buying into the questionable authoritarian dictates of a specific theology? Is Rastafari a Livity or a Doctrine?
ONE PERFECT LOVE SHALL OPEN JAH DOOR
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