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Rastas worship Selassie by, amongst other things, smoking [[marijuana]] in what they call "reasoning" sessions.<ref>Joseph Owens ''Dread, the Rastafaraians of Jamaica''</ref> Selassie was Christian -a member of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church - and while he was not a Rasta he never denied or belittled Rastafari, saying that nobody should question another's faith. Rastas believe that had Selassie claimed divinity, it could have shown him to be false prophet. <ref>http://www.uvm.edu/~debate/dreadlibrary/cardillo.html</ref>
Rastas worship Selassie by, amongst other things, smoking [[marijuana]] in what they call "reasoning" sessions.<ref>Joseph Owens ''Dread, the Rastafaraians of Jamaica''</ref> Selassie was Christian -a member of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church - and while he was not a Rasta he never denied or belittled Rastafari, saying that nobody should question another's faith. Rastas believe that had Selassie claimed divinity, it could have shown him to be false prophet. <ref>http://www.uvm.edu/~debate/dreadlibrary/cardillo.html</ref>
In 1974 Selassies government was overthrown by [[Communist]]s. And the dictatorship of [[Mengistu Haile Mariam]] started.<ref>http://www.hrw.org/news/1999/11/24/ethiopian-dictator-mengistu-haile-mariam</ref>
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