BF2S Forums What's The Difference? (Haiti)

Last edited by Phrozenbot (2010-01-13 22:55:46)

He flatly declared that the successful Haitian revolution against the French Army was inaugurated with a bargain. Jean Jacques Dessalines, the Haitian leader of the revolution, according to this preacher, had struck a deal with the devil.

Morpheus wrote:

Macbeth wrote:

Haiti is mostly full of people who practice a twisted form of Christianity that involves magic which we call "voodoo". This is merely one sect of Christianity bashing another sect of Christianity for differences within their own larger religious group. Not really comparable to Muslims hatred towards a secular state.

Voodoo is a derivative of the world’s oldest known religions which have been around in Africa since the beginning of human civilization. Some conservative estimates these civilizations and religions to be over 10 000 years old. This then identify Voodoo as probably the best example of African syncretism in the Americas. Although its essential wisdom originated in different parts of Africa long before the Europeans started the slave trade, the structure of Voodoo, as we know it today, was born in Haiti during the European colonization of Hispaniola. Ironically, it was the enforced immigration of enslaved African from different ethnic groups that provided the circumstances for the development of Voodoo. European colonists thought that by desolating the ethnic groups, these could not come together as a community. However, in the misery of slavery, the transplanted Africans found in their faith a common thread.

They began to invoke not only their own Gods, but to practice rites other than their own. In this process, they comingled and modified rituals of various ethnic groups. The result of such fusion was that the different religious groups integrated their beliefs, thereby creating a new religion: Voodoo. The word "voodoo" comes from the West African word "vodun," meaning spirit. This Afro-Caribbean religion mixed practices from many African ethnics groups such as the Fon, the Nago, the Ibos, Dahomeans, Congos, Senegalese, Haussars, Caplaous, Mondungues, Mandinge, Angolese, Libyans, Ethiopians, and the Malgaches.

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Haitian Vodou or Vaudou (French pronunciation: [vodu], Anglicised as Voodoo) is a syncretic[1] religion originating from the Caribbean country of Haiti, located on the island of Hispaniola. It is based upon a merging of the beliefs and practices of West African peoples, (mainly the Fon and Ewe; see West African Vodun), with Roman Catholic Christianity, which was brought about as African slaves were brought to Haiti in the 16th century and forced to convert to the religion of their owners, whilst they largely still followed their traditional African beliefs.[2]

ATG wrote:

Morpheus wrote:

ATG wrote:

The difference is that there seems to be some history behind the notion that there was a deal with the devil..

Now, maybe it's bs, but PR is not the first to say it.


http://www.ibiblio.org/prism/May96/haiti.html

I'm pretty sure there's a history behind the muslims not liking the west, they're called the crusades, or something.

The Muslim community is justified in much of their discontent.

Did we not carve the middle east up like a jigsaw puzzle after WW1?
Do we not now exploit the region for oil?


The crusades started as revenge by the Christians for Muslims attacking Christian peoples. The Christians turned it into a place to seek fortune and plunder. What should have been a border dispute became a military industrial complex that thrived for two hundred plus years.

Central banks have ruined everything here and in the U.K. and the West seeks to force our banking systems on them.


Frankly, they have every right to do anything they can to stop this.

Macbeth wrote:

Morpheus wrote:

ah, so not the "voodoo" you said previously.

Haitian Vodou or Vaudou (French pronunciation: [vodu], Anglicised as Voodoo) is a syncretic[1] religion originating from the Caribbean country of Haiti, located on the island of Hispaniola. It is based upon a merging of the beliefs and practices of West African peoples, (mainly the Fon and Ewe; see West African Vodun), with Roman Catholic Christianity, which was brought about as African slaves were brought to Haiti in the 16th century and forced to convert to the religion of their owners, whilst they largely still followed their traditional African beliefs.[2]

Haitian Vodou

What makes his type different is that usually these assholes don't fund terror...