COULD ANY HAITIAN DISLIKE THE VODOO? SHOULD ANY HAITIAN DISLIKE THE VODDO?
To make you understand the true nature of the problem I am reproducing those lines of the second volume of my Unconscious Motives of the Politico-Social Anarchy in Haiti in my main site: www.geocities.com/rogerqualo/MA_PAGE_UNIVERSITAIRE
"In speaking of the Haitian mythology, I want only to stress the practical and the utilitarian aspect of the myths on this country's history." Without the vodoo, the Haitian might not have been a free man and a citizen of an independent country in 1804, soon after the American and the French revolutions.
"The Haitian mythology is called "Vodoo." In it, the gods and the spirits are the "loas," and the priests and priestess are respectively the "hougans" and the "mambos, many of them having been respectful people." There exists an indefinite but huge number of spirits in this cult, since the vodoo is essentially polytheist," that came respectively from a African and ancient animism or pseudoanimism (a primitive form of religion) and from a Christian monotheism or pseudomonotheism, that came itself from Greco-Roman and Jewish mythologies. The less a religion has gods, the more progressive it looks and any retrograde motion makes it look less. In fact, an atheist world is one without any god to explain the natural events. While this may be be helpful to human progress, it may hurt the human mind who has always wanted to rely on or refer to a a mind superior to its (Cf., my other manuscript, The Church, Its Psycho-Social Aspects in Today Society). So, is President Aritide right or wrong? While I disagree with him (I will stay on the side of the pope)* I let you choose your own value and take your own decision.
* Dany Danash and I who are on opposite sides have been good class' comrades and the pupils of the Catholic brothers.
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