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Religious War in Haiti?

by James Denison Feb 25, 2010 12:45AM PST

I need to find more about what exactly is involved, but this is how it's being reported about a coming war between "Evangelicals" and Voodoo practitioners. Just goes to show nothing is ever what it seems in Haiti.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.40a90ddfa21ae9bc8c3c29c42ea76144.a81&show_article=1

Haiti's supreme voodoo leader vowed "war" on Wednesday after Evangelicals attacked a ceremony organized by his religion honoring those killed in last month's massive earthquake.

The attack on Tuesday in the capital's sprawling Cite Soleil slum came with religious tensions rising, as Protestant Evangelicals and other denominations recruit in the wake of the earthquake that killed more than 200,000.

"It will be war -- open war," Max Beauvoir, supreme head of Haitian voodoo, told AFP in an interview at his home and temple outside the capital.

"It's unfortunate that at this moment where everybody's suffering that they have to go into war. But if that is what they need, I think that is what they'll get."

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Nasty

by MarkFlax Former Forum moderator Feb 25, 2010 4:51AM PST

I don't know much about Voodooism but I have never considered it as a religion in the sense that I understand it.

But if this goes the way it seems, then the consequences are likely to be nasty.

Mark

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