Bob Marley is the number one reggae artist in the world. Although he is dead, he spreads his Rastafarian beliefs worldwide but more importantly encouraging black people to liberate themselves from the Babylon system; a system that they say was built by the rich and powerful to oppress poor black people. Bob Marley and the wailers, the popular Rastafarian reggae band at the time provided a voice for poor blacks to speak out against oppression that they faced under the Babylon System. Many Rastafarian reggae artists have expressed their dissatisfaction through their widely received music, resenting the society's normal way of life while encouraging others by identifying their circumstances and attracting their attention, to do the same. The Rastafarian movement uses alternative means to liberate themselves from Babylon's religious, social and political systems with great help from the reggae community, who spreads the Rastafarians beliefs.
The Rastafarian movement rejected the religious beliefs and customs of the Christian religion as a means of liberation. They were not atheists; they believe in God but they claim that there is a mistranslation of the Bible and refuse to follow those falsely customs and beliefs that Babylon interpreted the Bible to say. Erskine posited that the Europeans, in the colonial era, attempted to translate the Bible although they hardly understood the language in which it was written (8). The Europeans placed in the minds of the Africans a level of inferiority due to their purposely mistranslation of the Bible. Babylon successfully kept the Blacks from their true identity, as leaders that they ought to be, until the birth of Rastafarians in Jamaica. The present teachings of the church encourage one "to bear their sufferings bravely because they have a pie in the sky when they die," (Murrell, 27). By teaching this to the people, the church is advising that they should accept whatever oppression society throws at them without seeking any form of liberation.
