The Catholic Church and Vodou

The Catholic Church falsify (and still distorts) Vodou practices in more the same way that it has belie other indigenous apparitional practices, by demonizing them as malign and as servants of the devil. The historic crosstie between the church and the forces in colonialism was tight the troops functioned as an lace of the church and the church as an arm of the military except in individual cases where, on all side, in that location were people of moral sense and compassion who attempted to resist. The bulk didnt resist, however, and both colonial and religious officers worked hard to govern the publics examine on Vodou as a way to isolate Haiti and the religion, and more of those beliefs they generated live on today. The Haitian Catholic Church accepts Vodou, and has so for over thirty years, and estimates argon that between 50 portion to 95 percent of Haitians all practice or colligate with Vodou. Nonetheless today, if you are a non-Haitian and have heard of Vo dou, you probably think of all the supposedly negative things so normally associated with the religion: witchcraft, hexes, sacrifices, and the like. The reason for these thoughts, or so of which are in detail not true, lies mostly with the Catholic Church and U.S. Military.\nFrom the beginning of compound Haiti, Catholicism was the Islands formal religion. It didnt matter that there were around half a million enslaved Africans working and reenforcement 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 concentration and as Gods work, so they maligned Vodou as frequently as possible to evidence to gain little Frenchman.What they didnt realize was that the more they oppressed Vodou, the more steam Vodou picked up, with priests supporting(a) rebellions until eventually the Haitians came together and overthrew the French, meet the first free stark nation in the westbound H...