Freepers don't believe Haitians can convert to Christianity.

[Joanne98]

It's that VOO DOO thingy again!

40,000 Haitians profess faith in Christ since Jan. 12 quake

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (BP)--A reported 40,127 Haitians have made professions of faith in Jesus Christ since a major earthquake hit the impoverished nation in January, according to pastors and directors of missions within the Confraternite Missionaire Baptiste d'Haiti (CMBH).

"Haiti is ripe for a spiritual movement from God," said Craig Culbreth, director of the Florida Baptist Convention's partnership missions department, which coordinates the work of the CMBH, upon his Feb. 22 return from Port-au-Prince.

During a Feb. 16-17 citywide holiday observance in Cap Haitien, Haiti's second largest city, Culbreth saw "thousands upon thousands filling the streets where people are seeking God and asking Him to spare them from what happened in Port-au-Prince. For me, it was a New Testament expression of what it looks like when the Spirit of God shows up. I have never seen anything like it."


To: Between the Lines
“Scratch a Christian, find a jujuman”; old West African saying.

I’ll take this revival seriously when I see them publicly reviling and defenestrating their voudon ways and paraphernalia.



3 posted on Friday, February 26, 2010 11:36:34 AM by sinanju
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To: Between the Lines
They’re just adding another loa to their alter.



4 posted on Friday, February 26, 2010 11:38:30 AM by sinanju
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To: sinanju
I’ll take this revival seriously when I see them publicly reviling and defenestrating their voudon ways and paraphernalia.
You've got it:

Voodoo practitioners attacked at quake memorial
Voodooists gathered in Cite Soleil where thousands of quake survivors live in tents and depend on food aid, AP writer Paisley Dodds reports. Praying and singing, the group was trying to conjure spirits to guide lost souls when a crowd of Evangelicals started shouting. Some threw rocks while others urinated on Voodoo symbols. When police left, the crowd destroyed the altars and Voodoo offerings of food and rum.



6 posted on Friday, February 26, 2010 11:44:18 AM by Between the Lines (AreYouWhoYouSayYouAre? Esse Quam Videri - To Be, Rather Than To Seem)
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To: Between the Lines
"They are making the plans. We are only providing funding to make it happen."
Why do Christians let themselves get scammed so easily?


7 posted on Friday, February 26, 2010 11:44:54 AM by MindBender26 (Prezdet Obama is what you get when you let the O.J. jury select a president !)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2459877/posts

LOL

[Fumesucker]

1. Why do Christians let themselves get scammed so easily?

LOL.. Some questions just beg for a snarky answer..

[Initech]

9. God needs money, that's why!

[WhiteTara]

2. why would they want to?

They have their own commune with god/dess. What makes the xtians think it is all about them?

[Tippy]

3. I made my self a promise a long time ago to never follow a link to

freerepublic...I am not interested in anything they have to say...however they are dead wrong about Haitians converting to Christianity, many thousands of Hatians have converted. And my bet is they are better Christians than Freepers are...

[HopeHoops]

4. I guess they aren't aware that Christians make up almost the whole fucking country!

What is there to convert? Oh yeah, that's right - they might not be using the same "selected and twisted passages from the bible" version of "the bible".

[gmoney]

8. Oh, they don't think Catholics are real Christians...

Have the Chick Tracts taught you nothing?

http://www.chick.com/information/religions/catholicism/#hate

[arcadian]

10. Haitian are %70 Catholic

and %100 Vodou

[teknomanzer]

16. I don't think 100% are vodoun...

These would appear to be the statistics

Roman Catholic 80%, Protestant 16% (Baptist 10%, Pentecostal 4%, Adventist 1%, other 1%), none 1%, other 3%

Now I am sure that a rather large percetage of Hatians still hold onto their African traditions but for the most part Hatians are largely Catholic. So this is really about spreading a particular brand of Christianity - namely the bat shit crazy versions. Fucking fake ass do-gooders. I wish hell WAS real so they could all go there instead of making everyone elses existence pretty much like the pit of damnation.

[HopeHoops]

18. It is damn near entirely some form of Christian, but yes, Catholic is about 80%.

The voodoo thing is hogwash.

[Initech]

5. They cannot really believe the bile and garbage they spew, can they?

[Edweird]

6. Eh, if they or they don't, what business is it of theirs? I've met some intensely devout

catholic Haitians. Santeria is does have followers - though, anecdotally, it's more Cuban than Haitian. I think it's cool how they take catholic imagery and turn it into something else altogether.

[timtom]

7. I'm not sure I understand

what a freeper would possibly know about Christianity. I DO know they espouse a kind of pseudo-"christianity" of "me first" and "fuck you".

[proud patriot]

11. lowlife judgemental crispy fried freeper

[piratefish08]

12. I bet any one of them would trade their theology lessons for something to eat and drink.........

[era veteran]

13. Haiti is more christian than the US

I have four Haitians that work with me and they are devout. They go to bible study every Tuesday. The Voodoo thing is way hyped up.

[True_Blue]

14. Who cares if they convert or not - these people need help!

I read that the Christians are making Haitians renounce their religion before they help them. How would the Christians like it if they had to renounce their faith in order to receive aid?

[angelicwoman]

15. 96% of Haitians are Christian (CIA world factbook)

Half practice voodoo.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ha.html

If I'm not mistaken, Voodoo is simply a variation of Christianism for Haitians.

[old mark]

17. "Christians" are absolutely insane. I was raised in religious schools, and have

nothing but contempt for the entire crock of nonsense. I don't believe in any religion, but I really despise the "christians" arrogance and brainless anti-human belief in magic, especially their disrespect for anything that does not conform to their specific batch of beliefs.

mark