endurance wrote:
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All religious/spiritual beliefs systems do have good and bad elements including Voodoo. Much of the voodoo that the Haitians practice is negative and needs to stop because it is not healthy. Voodoo is the native religion of black Africans and was around long before slavery and colonization came with Islam and Christianity. We must speak about the bad effects of this religion and seek to find ways to change it, instead of just embracing voodoo because it's African. The Voodoo love spells that the Haitians engage inis very harmful, hence this is one of the amendments that the religion needs. Voodoo, poverty, political instability are all reasons why tourist do not go to Haiti.
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Ah good, someone who knows something about it for once, maybe I can learn something from you. This will be very interesting I'm sure.
Yes there are people practicing the negative side and i suspect those are the people who do not know all about the system and are just using the negative as a means of escaping the unnecessary poverty that they have been subjected to. However I do not agree that it is most. This is just from my experience but the people who I have met who do practice the religion and the positive side I mean, they all say that they have mostly met people who have practiced the positive side and have told me that it is the majority in the country. They have proclaimed that it is the minority who practice to hurt and abuse. They believe that it is the negative media portrayal that causes this belief that it is mostly the negative being practiced. However you sound like you know quite a bit and this is only from my experience second hand so obviously I cannot infer that these accounts are definitely true.
I agree that if it is the negative that is being practiced that something needs to be done. However I also believe that it should not be to stop it from happening outright but it should be to examine why these people feel the need to do this and what are the circumstances behind this boom in negative voodoo being practiced (simply because i definitely know that this was not always the way in haiti)
I do not wish to get too personal but I would like to know if you are from haiti if it is not too much to ask?