The controversial history and traditions of religions in Jamaica. Pt.1

The Controversial History and traditions of Religion in Jamaica
Jamaica is home to seven major religions spanning over 19 different denominations, But have you ever wondered how these diverse beliefs found their way to this Caribbean paradise? And amidst this rich tapestry of faiths, the age-old question lingers: which path is the true one?
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[@reggaedashcam]

I have been waiting for this, thank you.

[@EliteJamaica]

Thanks for watching

[@vinnette4583]

thanks very much for sharing with us anything about the traditional high school thanks viewing form Jamaica 👍👍👍👍🇯🇲

[@EliteJamaica]

@vinnette4583 the videos about the schools are on the channel already, thanks forbyour support and feedback

[@markmcfarlane8600]

@@EliteJamaicaChristianity was used as a weapon against black people in Jamaica n Africa ect ect

[@ordeansmith7001]

Do some more research on the Moravians

[@My_Yout]

Thanks for highlighting this part of our history. The founder of the Baptist movement's name is pronounced "Lile." The first church he started eventually became East Queen Street Baptist Church. In addition to their goal of spreading the Gospel and abolishing slavery, they wanted to educate black people. As such, the Baptist church started the most schools in Jamaica, the first being Gully School, which is now known as Calabar Infant Primary & Junior High School.

[@evertonvenair2362]

They're so many denomination God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and true ✔️

[@andrebrown8969]

Who told you that? A god? Or just something you were told?

[@mzhollywood8978]

@andrebrown8969 Here you go! Take care! John 4:24

[@andrebrown8969]

@mzhollywood8978 That is the Bible. I know the Bible, and some information about other religions. Tellme something a god told you directly.

[@question-every-thing]

Just the title alone made me subscribe. It was very educational and informative. Looking forward to watching your other videos. And thanks to yt for recommending your channel in my feed.

[@jovinjoseph489]

IT Is always a pleasure to read or listen to how the different denominations have emerged..people are not on earth to sleep work eat and drink but we have a spiritual part of us humans and which can be a sensitve topic

[@joanmartin7425]

Great research presented in an easy to understand way. Thank you👏🏾👏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@marash3231]

Great job on this topic I enjoyed watching. Very informative and well balanced.

[@EliteJamaica]

Thank you for watching

[@kennoybrown3946]

The Moravian churches are always build at scenic spots and has such amazing designs

[@EliteJamaica]

Fi real, that me notice while doing the research. Blessings bro

[@kennoybrown3946]

@@EliteJamaica Yea the Springfield Moravian Church in St. Elizabeth, Fairfield Moravian Church in Manchester and the Nazareth Moravian Church in Maidstone also in Manchester are best examples

[@heatherlawson1450]

Very informative but I was waiting to hear about Rastafarian 👍🏾👍🏾

[@EliteJamaica]

Coming in part 2

[@annmckenzie1745]

Thanks for the information...very interesting. Needs to be taught in school.

[@trudy-annbarracks6418]

Adventists started off a rumour of the second coming of Christ. They had even set a date for the second coming of Christ and when it never happened, everybody was disappointed. Jamaica full of denomination still.

[@EliteJamaica]

Correct

[@popowilliams1651]

Blessings bro long time big up

[@oneilhowell3800]

Great video!!!

[@cliffordgriffiths4131]

Excellent work. Colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism go hand in hand. We are still under the dark clouds.

[@godfreyosbourne3963]

Dat is it 🙏my fam

[@missmice659]

Im glad you titled this "part 1" because there's definitely more to the story 😂 you didn't touch on revivalist or pocomania church yet

[@missmice659]

I'm no longer attached to any religion myself but I'm interested in learning how & why they were passed down to us "the descendants of slaves", and how they shape our way of thinking (or lack of ), beliefs and practices.

[@bbhjh8536]

Thanks for the information! Very informative 👏 👌 👍 😀 Grateful for especially the Moravians.What happens to the Pentecostal? When were they introduced? Would appreciate their history also!

[@EliteJamaica]

Check out part two for those, thanks for watching

[@bbhjh8536]

@EliteJamaica Hope I'll be able to see same!

[@tb22k]

❤yes sir 😊beautiful church ⛪️

[@kennedysingh3916]

I'm a Seventh Day Adventist

[@haldenbennett5979]

Very interesting and eye opening. The Pentecostal movement is not mentioned???

[@EliteJamaica]

Coming In part 2

[@taharka3897]

​@EliteJamaica, have you read any books by Dr. DIOP Dr. Ben or Dr. Clark? (Have you heard of any of them?)

[@SDBOGLE]

"The biography of the Caribbean", German Arciniegas, loved to talk about "Our Mediterranean" referring to the Caribbean. Following his example I did exactly the same in my recent book: "El Caribe, Siempre el Caribe..." One way or another there is something nobody can deny about this sea of heavenly beauty and its cluster of unmatched islands. Western civilization entered the Western Hemisphere for the first time through the islands of the Caribbean and Sephardic Jews were among the first Europeans to set foot on the soil of the Western Hemisphere, the New World discovered by Christopher Columbus. I am among those that consider Columbus a Sephardi, that is, a Sephardic Jew. Simon Wiesenthal postulates that Columbus was careful to conceal his Judaism. Others have argued that Columbus was a "converso", a Sephardic Jew who publicly converted to Christianity. Another word commonly used was "Marrano", a Jew living in the Iberian Peninsula who converted or was forced to convert to Christianity, many of whom continued to practice Judaism in secret. In the Caribbean Sephardic Jews were sometimes known as "Portugals" or Portuguese because they originated there or settled in that country after the expulsion of 1492. My favorite Spanish historian, Don Salvador de Madariaga, one of the xxth century's most prominent Spanish statesmen and a former professor at Oxford University describes Columbus' Jewish roots in what I consider an almost definitive biography: "Vida del Muy Magnífico Señor Don Cristóbal Colón". The presence of a good number of "conversos" in Columbus' ship is described by José Amador de los Rios in his "Historia Social, Política y Religiosa de los Judíos de España y Dortual" That ic alen tha aninian of Cimon Wincanthal in bic baol, "Coile of Lano.

[@Nazarene_Judaism]

What about the jewish synagogues?

[@leonieharris8968]

Jewish and Methodist Rastafarism are includind hindu and a host of others which are older and influential are missing

[@EliteJamaica]

This is only part one, part 2 coming next. Thanks for watching

[@marciabarnes8554]

All these churches that you read about, were before the Pentecostal, new testament, apostolic, and the church of god

[@shauncrewe3107]

Pentecostalism, Rastafarianism, and Pocomania will be discussed in Part 2, yes?

[@EliteJamaica]

Most certainly

[@evrolbrown7275]

What about the two religion indigenous to our country, revivalist an rastafarian

[@EliteJamaica]

Coming next in part 2

[@SDBOGLE]

Great video bro..Investigate the Architecture of churches, in St Thomas. Many are Moors Architecture, including Churches and buildings in Spanish Town.

[@jacquelinecampbell537]

What about pentacostal churches. Poco indigenous churches. Spirit Baptihst churches

[@EliteJamaica]

Those are in the part two which was uploaded yesterday. Thanks for watching

[@SimpleThingsOutreachMedia]

Didn’t know Moravians were from what we know as Czech Republic today. I don’t get the ‘controversial’ part tho Alex… I have a similar video on my channel entitled ‘The Five Oldest Denominations in Jamaica’.

[@Rockjamify]

A good video. The sad part of Jamaican history, similar to the other territories that experienced slavery, is that an impression was created that Christianity is a white religion. Yet, Judeo-Christianity was present in parts of Africa thousands of years before Christianity even became established in Europe. Other parts of Africa were similar to pagan Europe

[@taharka3897]

I suggest you read Dr. Ben , Dr. Clark and Dr. DIOP to get a true history of religions in Africa, especially Christianity and Islam.

[@EliteJamaica]

@taharka3897 this video is about how the religion started in Jamaica or how it was adopted.

[@taharka3897]

@@EliteJamaica I know, I really ment religions with black people in general, including jamaica.

[@dope03pope]

it is quite ignorant when I see comments like this ....... dont you understand that Africa is huge continent spanning 1000s and 1000s of miles , and EAST African places that had christianity at that time Ethiopia , Egypt ,,,, are light years way from west Africa where is where if you are Jamaican your ancestors come from . the africans that were enslaved taken to Jamaica were mostly from the Ashanti tribe and practiced the Akon religion ...... would you like to guess how the were introduced to christianity ..........it certainly wasn't the Ethiopians and Egyptians separated by thousands of miles and a desert .....what you think they had jet blue 600 years ago, no , there is no evidence of any contact between these people at that time ( west coast Africa and east coast Africa ) ...... its not debatable or contested , it is well documented , my ancestors ( much like all slaves brought to Brazil , the carribean and the Americas ) were forced to stop speaking their native languages and native religions , and were forced to take on the christian religion by their slave masters . this is an uncomfortable fact for many to grasp because we still practice that religion today ,,,and I understand that ,,,,,still you can not just change history to make it fit what makes us feel better in 2024 , what happened happened and we need to respect that .

[@Rockjamify]

@@dope03pope I fail to see your point, as I made mention of East Africa as having a Judeo-Christian influence, then compared other parts of Africa to Europe when it was pagan. Not surprisingly, some sources see migration from eastern Africa as responsible for the west and southern populations. The Lemba tribe in Zimbabwe, have strong Hebrew traditions. Speaking of slavery, the Arabic/Muslim tribes of northern Africa were the first recorded slavers, regularly raiding across the Sahara to capture west Africans. This practice is still in existence today, for eg., one will hear of Boko Haram taking captives to sell. Don't get me wrong, plantation slavery was an atrocity, and there is no way to make it seem insignificant, but why didn't the pagan dieties save their worshippers from slavery?

[@evorreid1737]

I am a non-denominational believer in the authority of the Bible, which is the only requirement to pleasing God

[@malachkmalcom6328]

What happens to jewdaism?

[@omarpusey6888]

Question are u attach to any one of those religion?

[@EliteJamaica]

No I am not, are you? Thanks for watching

[@omarpusey6888]

Just like how u deal with the thing true and real...send dem go do some research and stop chatt.....

[@totaldestruction930]

Proud to be one of Jehovah's Witnesses.

[@EliteJamaica]

I grew up in the kingdom hall, my grandfather was an elder, I even took part in the theocratic ministry school. Thanks for watching

[@totaldestruction930]

@EliteJamaica : Beautiful, keep it up because this system don't have long, stick close to Jehovah.

[@jayisprime]

JPS

[@justbenice72]

Babylon release the chain but dem a use dem brain

[@elleyonaspg9580]

No Methodist, no Evangelical, no Episcopalian,no Buddhist, no Hindi?

[@EliteJamaica]

Pt 2

[@luanawest3325]

As a black person /jamaican if you’re either 1 about the above it’s a shame that you have not make mention Nthg about the Africans all those church tht u made mention of are white ppl founded but not about the black but then again yuh ah white man so mak it rest deh suh

[@markspringer716]

All of this is African ...it was reconstituted and whitened that's why you reject it .

[@phillylady]

Not to be too critical, but I just wanted to point out that all these (Catholicism, Baptists, SDA, etc.) are all various denominations of Christianity. Other religions would be Muslim, Judaism, Rastafarianism, Buddhism, etc., all of which are also found in Jamaica.

[@EliteJamaica]

Did you notice I said that in the intro, and also did you notice this is a part one video. Thanks for watching

[@phillylady]

@@EliteJamaicaI do note that you stated that they’re several religions in Jamaica, but then you proceed to list all the major Christian denominations without mentioning any of the other religions outside of Christianity… I look forward to part two of this video. 😊

[@omarpusey6888]

Great job bredda but u can't please black people with their critics and racism nothing u can do for them to appreciate u....a bet dem na talk say a dem sell out Jesus Christ and marcus garvey

[@EliteJamaica]

Lol, real talk

[@nyabinghinyabinghirealms9433]

A di romans kill Jesus eno it wasn't black people

[@marclodge2058]

Roman Catholic for me

[@nyabinghinyabinghirealms9433]

😂 ur an African how u fi be Roman catholic 😂

[@NP-zs5ui]

They introduced slavery.

[@marclodge2058]

@@NP-zs5ui nothing no go so

[@jeyjohnson3258]

I find it veeery interesting that the indigenous Rastafari movement bearly got a mention. Typically, we tend to ignore our own and promote everything and everyone else. All the religions that you talked about were complicit in colonizing the minds of Jamacians and in instilling the self hatered, arrested development, low self esteem, stranger worship (foreigners are better, richer, more beautiful - bleaching phenomenon etc)that continues today. For example violence is mostly perpetrated on fellow Jamacians, and rarely on visitors. The Rastafari movement that taught and stood for self value, self esteem, our history and our future IS ALWAYS overlooked. And I am not talking about dreadlocks hair - because people have a tendency (through ignorance) to conflate dreadlocks and Rastafarians. Yet Marcus Garvey, Bob Marley, Reggae music -- integral and essential to Jamacian's international prominence and recognition globally emerged through Black Consciousness. Yes colonized minds and William Lynch Syndrome continues to preserve and disperse the toxic poison that we administer to ourselves.😭😭😭

[@EliteJamaica]

Did you notice this is part 1, Next time look or read before you make yourself look dumb. Thanks for watching

[@user-st6ht6eg6h]

Who cares