Voodoo

Within the voodoo society, there are no accidents. Practitioners believe the universe is all one and each thing affects something else. Voo-doo. View-you. There is a lot more blood sacrifice in the Bible than in Voodoo. I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one-half the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth. . (Thomas Jefferson).I n fact the word blood is the second most used word after God. The word "voodoo" comes from the West African word "vodun," meaning spirit. It was born in Haiti during the European colonization of Hispaniola and some estimate this religion to be over 10,000 years old. Within the misery of slavery, the Africans found in their faith a common thread. They began to invoke not only their own Gods, but to practice rites other than their own. Within the voodoo society, there are no accidents. Practitioners believe the universe is all one and each thing affects something else. Voo doo. View you. Its all about understanding that people as individuals are mirrors of their own personal universe. This is the same as the concept of creating our own realities. The trance dance is an expression of spirituality and of connection to the spirit world. It has been badly misinterpreted by Christian society as evil. “You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?"(Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith)