Haiti would naturally depopulate due to barbarity, disease, and superstition if it was simply left to the retrograde mercies of its savage population.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 12/25/2010 7:37:13 AM PST by DeaconBenjamin
The head of Haiti’s voodoo religion has called on authorities to act after dozens of priest lynchings.
At least 45 male and female voodoo priests have been murdered in recent weeks after being blamed for causing the Caribbean country’s deadly Cholera outbreak. Most of the killings have taken place in the coastal town of Jeremie with victims often being hacked to death with machetes.
Max Beauvoir, the supreme leader of Haitian voodoo, who has criticised police for not doing enough to stop the killings, said:’‘We saw what happened in Jeremie. Certainly, immediately, everyone witnessed some holding machetes, cutting. About 45 people died in their hometown. We think that’s horrible and should never be tolerated. That’s why as voodoo practitioners we are rising against that and we will oppose it by any means necessary.’‘
Since emerging in central regions in October some 2500 people have died from Cholera. While some Haitians blame voodoo leaders for spreading the disease with spells and powder, others have accused the UN’s Nepalese force of bringing it to Haiti.
Bump!
Umm...that was just a joke.
therein lies the problem
it is truly hopeless....damn shame...I spent a lot of time there after the Duvaliers and Bennetts left...it's worse than Africa in some respects
clarify...actually most Blacks in Haiti originated from Senegal and French Guinea..not the Congo and further southern West Africa like some British imports
and there is a difference...a marked physical one
for the record....I consider voodoo a detriment to culture wherever practiced and I think it a bastardization of Christianity when mixed
no Voodoo based culture I am aware of prospers
If you are still wondering, you are more optimistic than I am.
I know!
And we’re trying to “help” these sub-humans why?
Sounds like they’re handling it just fine in their own culturally-appropriate way.
“I think you are talking about Rev. Franklin Graham, who invited Sarah Palin to go along with him on a trip he had already arranged.’
No… I am talking about Sarah. She lent her name to this and did say donations were needed.
“Also, I would distinguished between charity as trying to help people, and maybe even convert them from voodoo to Christianity….”
Oh get real!!!! Stop trying to convert everyone into Christians. Go to Haiti and try converting. You are not going to last very long alive. This is about the culture of a country.
Charity has never worked in Haiti, never ever. That is why they continue to be so backwards.
“Franklin Graham is not a social justice, big-government kind of guy, as far as I know.”
Graham is not a problem. Few folks would have known about his Haitian trip had Sarah not tagged along and made a big deal about it with Greta Van Susteren’s help.
Where’d all the money go?
Who’s dumber, the voodoo practitioners or the people who killed them because they thought voodoo caused the out break?
I appreciate your citing of the O.T. In those days it was necessary, happened frequently and in some, if not most cases. God commanded it.
Fortunately for us, Jesus was born, fulfilled the law and preached more peaceful ways. He told his disciples that if people wouldn’t receive His message to shake the dust from them and leave that place.
God bless you and those you love as we celebrate His birth.
Haiti needs to turn itself over the the Singaporeans or some Hong Kong-Taiwanese consortium to run the place - some people who have some experience with law-and-order and economic development.
He isn't and as best I can tell, neither is Sarah Palin. I haven't heard either of them advocating for tax money to be sent for relief.
It's an individual Christian obligation to help the poor and needy, something most liberals just don't get.
My small church sent money right after the earth quake and I'm sure churches all over the country did the same. It's that individual Christian mandate thing. By the way, the entire church voted on sending money there and exactly how much to send, there were no "nay" votes.
The money we sent was used for the express purpose of helping the people and was distributed accordingly by the S.B.C. there.
Haiti would naturally depopulate due to barbarity, disease, and superstition if it was simply left to the retrograde mercies of its savage population.
The people can be saved.
In Miami, the Christian Haitians some are the most hard working, friendly and moral people one can meet. They put many other Caribbean people to shame.
Their country is a completely different story.
Years: err, make that centuries of government corruption, mind boggling ineptness, voodoo, greed, slavery and stupidity have made the land to have collapsing or nonexistent infrastructure and basic fundamental aspects of a functioning civilization have broken beyond repair. That was before the earthquake.
Haiti is basically a dead country.
Export all the Haitians to other countries and level the island clean and start again
I'm serious. It's that bad. 90 % of the Island farmland is not ariable anymore.
That is the nature of the religion. The folks who take up the business understand the risks. You trade the power and wealth of being a supposed Healer with the onus of being blamed for things that go bad.When you accept the power of life and death you suffer when your clients believe you have inflicted death.
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