The Catholic Church and Vodou

The Catholic church distorted (and comfort distorts) Vodou habituates in much the equivalent agency that it has distorted some other indigenous religious practices, by demonizing them as malevolent and as servants of the devil. The historic link in the midst of the church building and the military in colonialism was tight the military functioned as an arm of the church and the church as an arm of the military except in individual cases where, on either side, on that point were people of conscience and shame who attempted to resist. The legal age didnt resist, however, and both colonial and religious officers worked hard to shape the overts view on Vodou as a way to isolate Haiti and the faith, and many of those beliefs they generated live on today. The Haitian Catholic Church accepts Vodou, and has so for over thirty years, and estimates ar that amidst 50 percent to 95 percent of Haitians either practice or affiliate with Vodou. up to now today, if you are a non-H aitian and take hold heard of Vodou, you probably conceptualize of all the supposedly veto 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 nigh half a one thousand thousand enslaved Africans working and living in the French colony with the majority practicing Vodou, it was still banned. The church viewed the feast of Catholicism to Haitian slaves as equivalent with assimilation and as Gods work, so they maligned Vodou as much as possible to try to pee-pee little Frenchman.What they didnt read was that the much they oppressed Vodou, the more steam Vodou picked up, with priests encouraging rebellions until ultimately the Haitians came together and overthrew the French, becoming the offshoot f ree black soil in the Western H...