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The Complex and Misunderstood Religion of Voodoo
TLDR Voodoo is a personal and subjective religion that focuses on being a good community member and improving oneself, involving seeking guidance from voodoo priests and priestesses and communicating with spirits. Despite misconceptions and misinterpretations, voodoo is not devil worship or evil magic, but rather a historically significant belief system.
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Voodoo is often misinterpreted and misunderstood due to its portrayal in Hollywood and its association with slave rebellions, but its origins and practices are much more complex and historically significant.
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Voodoo is a religion that is often misunderstood and misinterpreted, but it is not devil worship or evil magic; instead, it is a personal and subjective belief system that focuses on being a good community member and improving oneself.
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Voodoo is a personal and subjective religion that involves seeking advice and guidance from voodoo priests and priestesses, and while there is an evil aspect called Bo, practitioners of voodoo are familiar with it in order to oppose those who practice black magic.
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African voodoo and Haitian voodoo are connected through the belief in spirit possession and the use of ritual objects, such as dolls, which are not used for harm but rather for communication with the loa spirits.
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Voodoo, including Haitian Voodoo, involves communication with spirits, the association of Catholic saints with loa spirits, and rituals that include animal sacrifice.
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Voodoo rituals involve possession by spirits, self-injury without feeling pain, and a belief in death as a natural part of life, which Westerners view as crazy and unsettling.
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Voodoo rituals involve bloodletting, sharing the blood of animal sacrifices, and folk medicine practices, which can be a public health concern, but voodoo is not so different from other religions when you look at it.
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There is a war on voodoo by missionaries who associate it with Satan, despite the fact that voodoo has nothing to do with Satan and Western Christians are projecting their own hang-ups onto the religion.
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The hosts receive a message from a listener who shares his interaction with a man named Mamdou Habib, who was held at Guantanamo Bay and subjected to torture and extraordinary rendition, highlighting the ongoing issues with the treatment of prisoners and the lack of improvement under Obama.
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