Libor Halik
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Earthquake isn't random. Nothing is random. Haiti earthquake isn't random. The backlash against the witchcraft of voodoo is the solution. The Rev. Pat Robertson is consistent with this worldview. …More
Earthquake isn't random.
Nothing is random. Haiti earthquake isn't random. The backlash against the witchcraft of voodoo is the solution. The Rev. Pat Robertson is consistent with this worldview. Anything good that happens is God's blessing. Anything bad that happens is God's curse.
On a Christian Broadcasting Network today (Jan 13, 2010) Pat Robertson told viewers: „And you know, Christy, something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it, they were under the heel of the French, uh, you know, Napoleon the third and whatever, and they got together and swore a pact to the devil, they said, we will serve you, if you get us free from the Prince, true story. And so the devil said, 'OK, it's a deal.' And they kicked the French out, the Haitians revolted and got themselves free, and ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other, desperately poor. . . the Island of Hispaniola is one island cut down the middle. On the one side is Haiti, on …More
Libor Halik
Haitians are formally Catholic, but in reality it looks very different:
A process of syncretisation took place on Haiti (or Saint-Domingue as the territory was then called) where some voodoo loa (spirits) became identified with Catholic saints and some Catholic saints became loa in their own right. A particular syncretisation spurred me into writing about Voodoo - that between the Black MadonnaMore
Haitians are formally Catholic, but in reality it looks very different:
A process of syncretisation took place on Haiti (or Saint-Domingue as the territory was then called) where some voodoo loa (spirits) became identified with Catholic saints and some Catholic saints became loa in their own right. A particular syncretisation spurred me into writing about Voodoo - that between the Black Madonna of Czestochowa (Polish: Czarna Madonna Częstochowska) and the New World loa Erzulie Dantor. This is the loa of single mothers, homosexuals, justice and independence. Dantor was present at a famous voodoo ritual in 1791, where she took over the body of one of the worshippers and urged Haitians to "kill the stranger" - this precipitated the revolution which culminated in independence for the island in 1804 and the massacre of every Frenchman on the island. The backstory to the painting in Voodoo lore is of a mother fiercely protective of the daughter she carries (actually Jesus in the Catholic interpretation). She loves knives and received the facial scars fighting with her sister Erzulie Freda. The scars are a sign of Dantor's strength - she is wounded but keeps going. barrister.typepad.com/…/polish_haitian_…