Videocrux - Voodoo worshippers deny blame for Haiti quake

#Videocrux - Voodoo worshippers deny blame for Haiti quake Voodoo worshippers deny blame for Haiti quake
Voodoo in Haiti has taken on greater significance since the country's catastrophic earthquake. Practitioners are clinging to it to communicate with the dead -- while Christian converts blame it for the disaster.
Voodoo community blamed for angering god
A Port-au-Prince slum that was badly smashed in the quake, the practitioners of Voodoo are feeling under seige. Their cult, a form of west African polytheism that came to Haiti with the slave trade, is being blamed by some followers of the rapidly growing Christian denominations -- evangelicals, Seventh-Day Adventists, Baptists -- as the cause of God's anger in smiting their country. a Port-au-Prince slum that was badly smashed in the quake, the practitioners of Voodoo are feeling under seige. Their cult, a form of west African polytheism that came to Haiti with the slave trade, is being blamed by some followers of the rapidly growing Christian denominations -- evangelicals, Seventh-Day Adventists, Baptists -- as the cause of God's anger in smiting their country.
Several Christians against blaming Voodoo's
In front of one church overflowing during an hours-long Sunday service, several Christian Haitians said they agreed that blaming Voodoo for Haiti's ills was as akin to superstition as Voodoo itself.
Tribe being viewed as practioners of "black arts"
In the streets, many say Voodoo worshippers are as much victims as other Haitians. But a few still fear them as practioners of the "black arts". But Voodoo priests say their beliefs were part of Haitian culture well before the missionaries came.
Voodoos prepare for more public ceremonies
Back in the Voodoo shed, as the chanting and dancing and rum-fueled flames faded, the houngans somberly laid out their plans for bigger, more public ceremonies in the days to come. They owe the spirits of the dead that release, they say -- and they owe themselves that show of defiance.

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