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Voodoo...a new religion?

Voodoo's nothing new, it's been a religion for a looooong time.
 
c4ts said:
Voodoo's nothing new, it's been a religion for a looooong time.
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I just did not realize it was an official religion. I wonder where I've been.....
 
Ruby said:


I just did not realize it was an official religion. I wonder where I've been.....
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Officiation is pretty meaningless regarding a religion as old as voodoo. It predates Christainity, I think.
 
I have a Voodoo doll...it was given to me as a gift when I started teaching a class on belief in the paranormal; given by a friend who was visiting New Orleans at the time. It completely freaked out my family by moving around the house while we were gone. Turns out the cats loved the thing. I have to keep it on a special shelf now.

I sort of have respect for practitioners of Voodoo. None of this pansy-arse Pascal's wager sort of belief; these people eat, sleep, drink and breathe their religion. So much so that "Voodoo death" is a serious subject among people who study the nervous system; there have been (apparantly) verified cases of death due to the belief in a hex that has been placed upon one.
 
c4ts said:


Officiation is pretty meaningless regarding a religion as old as voodoo. It predates Christainity, I think.
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Sort of. It was created by slaves by mixing ancient tribal beliefs with the christainity that they were being taught. So it's bot older and newer, depending on how you look at it
 
Mercutio said:
I have a Voodoo doll...it was given to me as a gift when I started teaching a class on belief in the paranormal; given by a friend who was visiting New Orleans at the time. It completely freaked out my family by moving around the house while we were gone. Turns out the cats loved the thing. I have to keep it on a special shelf now.

I sort of have respect for practitioners of Voodoo. None of this pansy-arse Pascal's wager sort of belief; these people eat, sleep, drink and breathe their religion. So much so that "Voodoo death" is a serious subject among people who study the nervous system; there have been (apparantly) verified cases of death due to the belief in a hex that has been placed upon one.
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I am reminded of the movie "The Serpent And The Rainbow".
 
c4ts said:


Officiation is pretty meaningless regarding a religion as old as voodoo.
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True, but it wouldn't necessarily have to be an old religion, would it? I mean, what office makes the decision that this is religion and that is not? I kind of invision a scene where a new religion hangs a official certificate proudly on their wall and then opens its doors for business.
 
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