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Voodoo is more useful than christianity to Haitians.
And christians are trying to convert them, and steal Haiti’s children.
It's a faith that leaps barriers: as the Haitian saying goes, people here are “60 per cent Catholic, 40 per cent Protestant and 100 per cent voodoo.”
“If everything is good, they go to church,” said Pierre Andre Laguerre, a parish priest at Sainte Bernadette Church in Port-au-Prince .””If something bad is happening to them, they go to the voodoo priest to get help.”
Growing Haitian anger at their children being taken across the border was fuelled by the arrest of 10 American Baptists at Port-au-Prince as they tried to take 33 young orphans, aged from two months to 12 years, into the Dominican Republic.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news….76.html
Stuart
Hi Stu. You seem to spend a large proportion of your life arguing about something that doesn't exist (in your own mind).
Makes you wonder why? Must be more to this God thing than you are letting on.Perhaps Stu is searching for that one post, that one explanation, that one bit of evidence that will help him believe that there is a God. But all he gets are people saying what they believe as if that was evidence of anything. Well, it is evidence that people are willing to believe in something with nothing more than emotions and people saying it is true.
Of course, I have no idea why Stu is on here. I still post here because while I no longer believe as I do, I still find spiritual matters fascinating. Looking back, I realize that I believed simply because it was easy to wish for something more than just this life. Its sort of like daydreaming about finding a genie's lamp and getting three wishes and what I would wish for. And just as real.
kj. He doesn't want to believe judging by his posts.
If you don't want to accept something, then you probably won't.Quote (t8 @ Feb. 02 2010,16:36) kj. He doesn't want to believe judging by his posts.
If you don't want to accept something, then you probably won't.
Wanting to believe is irrelevant as far as I am concerned. Finding the best model for how the universe and its human inhabitants work is not contingent on 'wanting' anything but the best evidence.However, this site is full of people who want to misrepresent science in order to find a way to believe what they want to believe. They assert what they want to believe and then castigate one another for not believing as they do.
Learning what makes humans behave like this is part of the wider quest to find those models that explain.
Stuart
I was wondering about this too.
Quote You seem to spend a large proportion of your life arguing about something that doesn't exist (in your own mind).
Makes you wonder why?I don't know if anyone here has ever watched “house” but House is extremely anti-God and spends a lot of his time making fun of people who believe in God. He questions them, argues with them, belittles them. Yet, there are those moments when he finds himself wanting to be wrong.
Quote (david @ Feb. 17 2010,17:05) I was wondering about this too. Quote You seem to spend a large proportion of your life arguing about something that doesn't exist (in your own mind).
Makes you wonder why?I don't know if anyone here has ever watched “house” but House is extremely anti-God and spends a lot of his time making fun of people who believe in God. He questions them, argues with them, belittles them. Yet, there are those moments when he finds himself wanting to be wrong.
I realise that some non-believers will say they “haven't found faith” or similar, but I always interpret that as them wanting to avoid offending the religious by resisting the temptation to express their true feelings on the matter of admiring the emperor's new clothes.I have heard a few who appeared genuinely disappointed that they couldn't believe, but in what episode of House was there ever a suggestion that he genuinely wished he was wrong?
For what it's worth (hardly anything), Hugh Laurie is an atheist:
From a 2006 appearance on Inside the Actors Studio (original air date: 7/31/06) he had the following exchange with James Lipton:
Lipton: Do you share Houses's skepticism? Laurie: [laughing] I do. Big chunks of it, yes. I'm not a religious man. Again, I think this is connected to my father. My father was religious oddly enough, but I nonetheless I suppose was impressed by [and] enamored of his devotion to medical science. I find I am a fan of science. I believe in science. A humility before the facts. I find that a moving and beautiful thing. And belief in the unknown I find less interesting. I find the known and the knowable interesting enough.
Although actors are just paid to act, in the case of House, I detect a similarity between the actor and the character which is consistent with the involvement Laurie has with the direction of the storylines and character development.
Stuart
If faith is so abhorrent, then why spend half your days talking about it?
That is a fair enough question.Unless it is good for me, if I hate something, I tend to keep away from it.
Quote (t8 @ Feb. 17 2010,22:30) If faith is so abhorrent, then why spend half your days talking about it?
That is a fair enough question.Unless it is good for me, if I hate something, I tend to keep away from it.
You are welcome to your opinion. Of course you would not be pretending to represent my opinion, would you.Stuart
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