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Originally Posted by Twoller
How do you know that "Voodoo" does not have a doctine or tradition of mercy and compassion for others in need?
Their "national religion" is Catholicism who has a tradition and doctrine of buggering babies and reducing populations to grinding poverty as so easily illustrated in Haiti.
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No the national religion is voodoo. It has been ever since Papa Doc Duvalier decreed it in 1957.
There is no doctrine of mercy or compassion because voodoo doesn't have those concepts.
However, many of the non-religious aspects of Voodoo which people often criticize really seem to be more the result of Voodoo's overwhelming fatalism. The view is that to an astonishing degree the lwa determine out lives. The Haitian serviteur has little use for anything like the Western idea of free will and personal responsibility. Rather, whatever has happened it is the lwa who have caused it.
http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/haiti/ ... erview.htm
With one in ten under-40s infected with HIV, and millions living in squalor and destitution, thousands try to flee each year to the U.S. by hanging on to anything that will float. While hurricanes, floods and earthquakes have all devastated the landscape over the years, the biggest threat has come from humans.
Successive dictators have raped, murdered and even reputedly eaten their enemies.
Described by one commentator as an 'international crime scene' rather than a country, Haiti became infamous around the world during the reign of Francois 'Papa Doc' Duvalier, a former doctor who murdered 100,000 people and formed a private band of killers called the Tonton Macoutes. Wearing their trademark mirrored sunglasses and designer T-shirts, these murderers and cannibals were named after a terrifying bogeyman from Haitian mythology, who carried off naughty children into slavery.
The Tonton Macoutes cut out the hearts, eyes and lungs of opponents with machetes, while Papa Doc, who stole almost a billion pounds in foreign aid, insisted that every television and radio programme had to be entirely in praise of his rule. In power from 1957, Papa Doc made voodoo the country's official religion and claimed to be Baron Samedi, the religion's spirit of death. He often wore a top hat and tails while demanding the skulls of his dead victims were brought to his palace in Port-au-Prince.
He collected blood from prisoners who had been tortured and killed and sold it for $22 a pint to U.S. health groups. He once ordered the death of all black dogs in the country after a political enemy was rumoured to have transformed into one.
http://www.ghostofaflea.com/archives/013479.html
Because of the millions of dollars in aid now pouring into Haiti, Papa Doc's son, "Baby Doc" Jean Claude Duvallier is preparing a comeback as the island's leader as is Jean Paul Aristide. Both are preparing to challenge Rene Preval for the presidency. All three have significant numbers of fighters in Haiti ready to do battle. The "aid" is going to cause a three part civil war that will have worse results than the earthquake ever could.