Black Spirituality Religion : Believing in VooDoo

[Sekhemu]

have you read the dialogue or did you just see that 1 reply? I said VOUDON IS A RELIGION just like every other religion and it's FAKE. They responded by "tell the people of TOGO and BENIN it's fake" I say Togo and Benin are poor, so what is Voudon doing for them? If your "religion" not doing nothing for you then wtf are you in that religion anyway?

The-God is a realist, not an sensationalist.

How do you know if anyone's religion works for them without making sweeping generalizations. Moreover, who determines what constitutes the definitive working defition of reality?

 

[Ankhur]

How do you know if anyone's religion works for them without making sweeping generalizations. Moreover, who determines what constitutes the definitive working defition of reality?

Malcolm said if your religion doesn't do anything for you maybe you need to get rid of it

 

[Sekhemu]

Malcolm said if your religion doesn't do anything for you maybe you need to get rid of it

This is subjective at best. How can anyone unequivically establish what religion works for you without agreeing on the same terms as to its meaning.
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Some people see religion as a tool for the aquisition of material wealth and control. Others view religion as a vehicle to unite with the Godhead.

 

[Ankhur]

Vodun as was alluded to in the previous post is an indigenous Traditional African Religion. Superstition has little to nothing to do with it. Traditional African Religions must not be confused with ritual magick.

Here's a link that may prove enlightening

Www.Amengansie.Com

This website has been her 10 years and more then likely , over 60 thousand people of African descent have come and gone and some stayed.

People who have come here to get a better understanding of many things!

What really is needed here is someone to simply post the facts to dspel the common feelings most Black folks in this nation and the Caribbean have about Voodoo that are different from what they think or feel about Dogon, Akan, Zulu, or Yoruba

1 Most people's references to Voodoo, are spells.
That is the fact!
A.Spells for good luck, spells for crooked like like getting someones wife to divorce and marry them
B.Spells of bad luck like having someone "dressed"
C.Spells that make someone sick or die
D.works that can make someone into a zombie; The Serpent and the Rainbow/ Harvard study

Most Black newspapers older then 60 years have advertisements for houngans who will do works for a set fee

2 Many believe that Voodoo was used as a psychic weapon to keep the masses in check, by the Ton Ton Macout of the Duvalier family

3 Many are leary about , the posession by, gods or loas, and are fearfull of that,
or losing ones consciousness, or having ones mind taken over by something else

4 Many have a problem with beings that need blood sacrifices, and wonder if the larger the sacrifice the more power one receives from these beings

5 Many wonders if this is something that one gets involved with, can they simply leave or are they in it for life

These 5 notions about Voodoo can and should be cleared up for the benefit of understanding and truth

Voodoo like Freemasonry is so secret, that of course people will not realy know or understand,

but as some Masons have given clarity to their rituals and beliefs, it would be of great service for the proponents of voodoo to do the same,

especialy in the light of the illuminati , studying this , and being initiated into it since the colonization of Haiti (French Martinism)
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[Ankhur]

This is subjective at best. How can anyone unequivically establish what religion works for you without agreeing on the same terms as to its meaning.
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Some people see religion as a tool for the aquisition of material wealth and control. Others view religion as a vehicle to unite with the Godhead.

just quoting what Malcolm said not making any judgements, and he was focused on Christianity when he said it