The Catholic Church and Vodou

The Catholic church distorted (and politic distorts) Vodou radiation diagrams in much the same(p) charge that it has distorted other indigenous unearthly practices, by demonizing them as malevolent and as servants of the devil. The historic link among the church building and the phalanx in colonialism was tight the military functioned as an arm of the church and the church as an arm of the military except in psyche cases where, on either side, at that place were people of conscience and benevolence who attempted to resist. The bulk didnt resist, however, and both colonial and religious officers worked hard to shape the prevalents view on Vodou as a way to isolate Haiti and the religious belief, and many of those beliefs they generated alive on today. The Haitian Catholic Church accepts Vodou, and has so for all over thirty years, and estimates atomic number 18 that between 50 percent to 95 percent of Haitians either practice or affiliate with Vodou. nonwithstanding today, if you are a non-Haitian and reach heard of Vodou, you probably gestate of all the supposedly invalidating things so commonly associated with the religion: witchcraft, hexes, sacrifices, and the like. The reason for these thoughts, most of which are in fact not true, lies mostly with the Catholic Church and U.S. Military.\nFrom the beginning of Colonial Haiti, universality was the Islands official religion. It didnt matter that there were about half a one million million enslaved Africans working and living in the French colony with the majority practicing Vodou, it was still banned. The church viewed the spreading of Catholicism to Haitian slaves as equivalent with assimilation and as Gods work, so they maligned Vodou as much as possible to try to authorize little Frenchman.What they didnt micturate was that the to a greater extent they oppressed Vodou, the more steam Vodou picked up, with priests encouraging rebellions until in conclusion the Haitians came together and overthrew the French, becoming the prime(prenominal) free black earth in the Western H...