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Donnie B.
Skeptic Friend
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 Posted - 04/10/2003 : 15:45:29
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(AP) - Haiti's government has officially sanctioned voodoo as a religion, allowing practitioners to begin performing ceremonies from baptisms to marriages with legal authority.
Great, just what the world needed...
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walt fristoe
SFN Regular
USA
505 Posts |
Posted - 04/10/2003 : 17:25:02 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Donnie B.
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(AP) - Haiti's government has officially sanctioned voodoo as a religion, allowing practitioners to begin performing ceremonies from baptisms to marriages with legal authority.
Oh boy! Maybe I'll get to see some zombies! 
This doesn't seem all that much different from the US sanctioning Wicca, really. Though I'm certainly not equating the two, some Christian zealots would, since they think only of witchcraft, which they see as a form of Satan worship. |
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Starman
SFN Regular
Sweden
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Posted - 04/10/2003 : 23:16:54 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by walt fristoe
Though I'm certainly not equating the two, some Christian zealots would, since they think only of witchcraft, which they see as a form of Satan worship.
They se most things as forms of Satanic worship: rational thought, all other religions, most other christian sects, love, humanism, liberalism, socialism, .... |
"Any religion that makes a form of torture into an icon that they worship seems to me a pretty sick sort of religion quite honestly"
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Tokyodreamer
SFN Regular
USA
1447 Posts |
Posted - 04/11/2003 : 07:56:00 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Starman
[They se most things as forms of Satanic worship: rational thought, all other religions, most other christian sects, love, humanism, liberalism, socialism, ....
I have direct experience with this. Back when I was coerced into going to church with my parents, the preacher actually said that all other religions were "demon worship". |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 04/11/2003 : 07:58:32 [Permalink]
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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.
http://www.artmediahaiti.com/amh/c384.html
Could be worse, I guess. Could be Christianity.
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
4826 Posts |
Posted - 04/11/2003 : 10:21:37 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Starman
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Originally posted by walt fristoe
Though I'm certainly not equating the two, some Christian zealots would, since they think only of witchcraft, which they see as a form of Satan worship.
They se most things as forms of Satanic worship: rational thought, all other religions, most other christian sects, love, humanism, liberalism, socialism, ....
You weren't able to get to atheism. [sarcasm] It is an affront to GAWD for these atheists, misled by SATAN, to deny the existance of GAWD. [/sarcasm]
Unfourtunately, I have heard the sarcastic section verbatim from a fundie. Scarry folks. |
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