The Catholic Church and Vodou

The Catholic Church misrepresent (and still distorts) Vodou practices in very ofttimes the same way that it has perverse other indigenous sacred practices, by demonizing them as malevolent and as servants of the devil. The historic get in touch between the perform and the troops machine in colonialism was tight the military functioned as an progress of the church and the church as an arm of the military except in individual cases where, on every side, on that point were people of scruples and compassion who attempted to resist. The legal age didnt resist, however, and both colonial and religious officers worked hard to form the publics place on Vodou as a way to isolate Haiti and the religion, and some of those beliefs they generated live on today. The Haitian Catholic Church accepts Vodou, and has so for over thirty years, and estimates are that between 50 per centum to 95 percent of Haitians both practice or concord with Vodou. Nonetheless today, if you are a non-Haitian and have heard of Vodou, you in all probability think of all the purportedly negative things so commonly associated with the religion: witchcraft, hexes, sacrifices, and the like. The reason for these thoughts, nearly of which are in position not true, lies mostly with the Catholic Church and U.S. Military.\nFrom the beginning of colonial Haiti, Catholicism was the Islands positive religion. It didnt matter that there were around half a million enslaved Africans working and breathing in the French resolution with the majority practicing Vodou, it was still banned. The church viewed the spreading of Catholicism to Haitian slaves as equivalent with culture and as Gods work, so they maligned Vodou as much as possible to fork over to gain little Frenchman.What they didnt realize was that the more they loaded Vodou, the more steam Vodou picked up, with priests boost rebellions until eventually the Haitians came together and overthrew the French, meet the first free low-spirited nation in the westerly H...