We cannot mold G-d into our image, of how we
want to see Him, how we want Him to be. He is the Great I AM, the Eternal,
never changing G-d. But we have tried to adapt Him to our days, to our
thinking in the 21st century, to what we find acceptable. We
have become so “worldly-open-minded” that we have come to regard G-d’s
– unchanged – ways as “extremely right wing.”
Indeed, G-d has become categorized by both secular
and even religious folks as an extreme “religious right winger;” while
Messiah Yeshua was such a “religious extremist and fanatic” that, with
a whip in hand, He took it upon Himself to clear the Temple’s Court of
the Gentiles of the merchants and money changers8.
He even dared to charge the religious leaders of His days with wrong doing,
calling them “hypocrites,” “brood of vipers,” and “blind guides.”9
Were He to say such things today to/of some of our overbearing, popular
religious leaders who lack in integrity, are in love with self, with this
life and with money, much money, He’d be kicked out of church immediately.
Nor would He be invited to speak at their conferences as everybody would
fear He might upset the sensibilities of some with His direct talk (let
us remember that they hated Him for speaking the truth and wanted to destroy
Him). This no one could afford since the people must remain favorably disposed
toward the ministry lest their generous donations come to a halt.
For the sake of this article I have again researched
voodoo, witchcraft and devil worship. The articles I’ve found and read
– and some of them I’ve linked here – simply amaze me.
Every author tried to explain and justify the
practice of voodoo, as if it were something totally acceptable. According
to them, only the “religious right” displayed intolerance and ignorance
toward the wholly “harmless” practice of voodoo. Demon possession is perfectly
cool and alright; conjuring up the dead is hip as well, nor is sacrificing
animals to demons wrong.
Pat Robertson10
apparently referred to the historically most important Voodoo ceremony
in Haitian history, the Bwa Kayiman ceremony held in the woods at Bois
Caiman, near the city of Cap-Haitien, that began the Haitian Revolution,
led by the Voodoo priest named Boukman. During this ceremony on the night
of August 14, 1791, the spirit (i.e. demon) Ezili Dantor came and received
a black pig as an offering, and all of those present drank of the blood
of that pig, sealing with it the pact they made with each other to fight
for freedom. They pledged 200 years of service to the spirits of the island
in exchange for victory over the FrenchO!!!.
This ceremony ultimately resulted in the liberation of the Haitian people
from their French masters in 1804, and the establishment of the first and
only black people's republic in the Western Hemisphere, the first such
republic in the history of the world.” An iron statue of a pig sits in
Port-au-Prince to commemorate that event.11
Offering up a pig to a demon has nothing to do
with the devil? Drinking the pig’s blood for the sake of the pact they
made with each other to overthrow their French masters had nothing to do
with the demon to whom they offered the pig? And the spirits of the island
to whom they pledged service for their help were not demons who have ruled
over these former slaves for 200 years, keeping them in abysmal poverty
and misery? This Ezili Dantor, therefore, played no role in this pledge
they made to each other?
Hello??!! Has 2 now become 3, and the “X” a “U”?
Has G-d’s command been abrogated that says, “[When
you come into the land which the LORD your G-d gives you], you shall NOT
LEARN TO FOLLOW THE ABOMINABLE PRACTICES of those nations. There shall
not be found among you any one who makes his son or daughter pass through
the fire [as an offering], any one who practices divination, a soothsayer,
or an augur, or a sorcerer, or a charmer, or a medium, or a wizard, or
a necromancer. For WHOEVER DOES THESE THINGS IS AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD;
and BECAUSE OF THESE ABOMINABLE PRACTICES the LORD your G-d is driving
them out before you… These nations give heed to soothsayers and diviners;
but AS FOR YOU, the LORD your G-d HAS NOT ALLOWED YOU SO TO DO.”?12
By the prophet Isaiah the Lord speaks to His people
(don’t Christians claim to be His people?), saying, “And when they say
to you, ‘Consult the mediums and the wizards who chirp and mutter,’ should
not a people CONSULT THEIR G-D? Should they consult the dead on behalf
of the living?”13, such as is being
practiced by voodooists, conjuring up the spirits of ancestors whom they
worship as well. Even King Saul, rejected by G-d for a disobedience of
terrible consequences for Israel, asked for the spirit of departed Samuel
to be called up by the medium at Endor, to inquire of him14.
Whose G-d do Christians worship? Is it not the
G-d of the Jews, the G-d of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Holy One of Israel?
Are not most of the Haitians allegedly Catholics, and the remainder Protestants?
Do G-d’s statutes and ordinances not apply to them because they are not
Jews? Or was Paul the apostle an intolerant, ignorant religious bigot when
He wrote to the Corinthians, “I do not want you to be partners with demons.”15
How else does this Episcopelean priestess, Angela Boatright-Spencer, justify
her position published on her blog site? And how does the Rom. Catholic
priest, Fr. Dwight Longenecker – standing on his head - on his blogsite?16
Isn’t it interesting indeed that Catholic prayers
are part of Haitian voodoo17 services?
And people getting brainwashed without knowing it, such as I saw yesterday
when in a TV movie four guys were about to attack two homosexuals of whom
one, however, had super powers, immobilizing them. Then he said to them,
“Why are you so full of prejudice against homosexuals, huh? They are just
people, like you and me, and only chose an alternative lifestyle. That’s
all it is – an alternative lifestyle. You should try it too, it’s great.
Don’t knock what you haven’t tried. Do it, your a@# will love it, I promise
you.”
Consequently, even many Christians find this “alternative”
lifestyle “acceptable” now and dare not speak out against it, lest they
be regarded as religious bigots and fanatics, full of hatred and intolerance.
But what does G-d say in the Scriptures? And Who,
how and what is He really?
