That’s an interesting idea but that money would be better served if we could somehow convince the PTL to channel it towards the Haiti relief fund. They could always claim it is for the conversion of the heathens…

hello Steve,

I realize the Vodou faith is alive and well in Haiti and somehow the people have blended christian teachings into their faith. I know of at least one other organized religion that has a history of that…
But I guess the point I was trying to make was that as Christians it is God’s decree that we try to lead people to salvation, not condemn them as hopeless sinners. If God kept a running tab of our sins for all eternity, who could stand?

Thank you both for the visit.

peace.

Now the significance you put on that pact I guess has to do with whether you believe the devil is real or not.

But it is one of Haiti’s founding myths.

http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/small_axe/v009/9.2laroche.html

According to Haitian national history, the revolutionary war was launched on the eve of a religious ceremony at a place in the north called Bwa Kayiman (Bois Caiman, in French). At that ceremony on August 14, 1791, an African slave named Boukman sacrificed a pig, and both Kongo and Creole spirits descended to possess the bodies of the participants, encouraging them and fortifying them for the upcoming revolutionary war. Despite deep ambivalence on the part of intellectuals, Catholics, and the moneyed classes, Vodou has always been linked with militarism and the war of independence and, through it, the pride of national sovereignty.

So, yeah if there is a devil, Haiti made a pact with it. Might explain why even though Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the same island, the Dominican Republic has been far more successful.