16472: Allouard: Re: 16463: Anonymous Re: 16425: Cunningham: Christians vs Voodoo (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Philippe Allouard <allouard@libertysurf.fr>

Many thanks for this developped argument...
I feel the same as you, and think accordingly in almost all points...
It is often difficult to recognise christianism in some "missions"... Some
of them should also take all the Bible more seriously and listen to Paul's
"non resistere malo"... While  vaudou practises are not all to be baptized
easily, and people going "nan ginen" would not ask this, it is from a
christian point of view questionable to qualify each and every aspect of
vaudou as a direct expression of Satan's work... I am sincerely not sure
that offering "kleren" to some lwa is more satanic than the pride one can
feel about his missionary commitment...
As for myself at least, trying to be a christian, I hope I will manage to
curb down my pride before I am able to fight Ezili and Bosou, if they exist
elsewhere than in my brothers mind... But perhaps am I corrupted because I
attend a service when a friend invites me...

Other point: even if ready to accept a change in the way the Gospel is
preached, for the tools, I feel difficult to be sure Peter, Paul, John,
Philippe, Matthew and the others preachers from the begining would have
thought fireworks a true spiritual weapon... Except that, "Haitian with the
Haitians" saint Paul would have enjoyed the display of lights and colors,
wondering perhaps how so much money can be spent in fumes when bread and
meat are not there...

Best regards to all the Corbetters from a small christian in love with
Haiti.

                                                        Philippe