Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Those Oh-So-Hip Anglicans Keep Lookin' for an Angle

Oh, yeah -- this oughta' work.

Songs by late reggae legends Bob Marley and Peter Tosh - both devout Rastafarians - will be included in a new collection of Anglican church hymnals in Jamaica.

Marley's "One Love" and Tosh's "Psalm 27" will be the first reggae tunes to appear in songbooks alongside traditional worship music on the island that gave birth to reggae, said church leaders preparing a new collection of hymns.


Church spokesman Rev. Ernle Gordon said on Friday that members of the Anglican Church of Jamaica were enthusiastic about including the reggae musicians' music in the hymnals, despite their sometimes vocal opposition to Christianity...


By the way, Rastafarians accept black separatist Marcus Garvey as a divine prophet, use pot in their personal and community worship experiences, and believe that Haile Selassie I, the late Emperor of Ethiopia, is God incarnate and part of the Trinity. But, hey -- given what other loopy doctrines are masquerading as Anglican nowadays, who can complain about a few heretical songs in the hymnal?