Comments on: CONSEQUENCES OF AN OVERNIGHT SENSATION /2010/01/consequences-of-an-overnight-sensation/ Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:41:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.8 By: Dave /2010/01/consequences-of-an-overnight-sensation/#comment-457 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:53:49 +0000 /?p=8083#comment-457 you are probably right to some degree. However, the risk of simplification is fraught with problems. Robertson’s term of the ”devil” is anything outside his field of interest and ambition. I will be going into more detail on this soon. thanks for reading! and feel free to comment again. If voudou has been linked with militarism, what is linked with American militarism?

]]> By: Steve /2010/01/consequences-of-an-overnight-sensation/#comment-456 Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:52:34 +0000 /?p=8083#comment-456 The truth is that they did make a pact with the devil.

Now the significance you put on that pact I guess has to do with whether you believe the devil is real or not.

But it is one of Haiti’s founding myths.

http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/small_axe/v009/9.2laroche.html

According to Haitian national history, the revolutionary war was launched on the eve of a religious ceremony at a place in the north called Bwa Kayiman (Bois Caiman, in French). At that ceremony on August 14, 1791, an African slave named Boukman sacrificed a pig, and both Kongo and Creole spirits descended to possess the bodies of the participants, encouraging them and fortifying them for the upcoming revolutionary war. Despite deep ambivalence on the part of intellectuals, Catholics, and the moneyed classes, Vodou has always been linked with militarism and the war of independence and, through it, the pride of national sovereignty.

So, yeah if there is a devil, Haiti made a pact with it. Might explain why even though Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the same island, the Dominican Republic has been far more successful.

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