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Haitian Vodou, a New World Afro-diasporic faith unique to the country, is practiced by roughly half the population.[62] Religious practice often spans Haiti and its diaspora as those who have migrated interact through religion with family in Haiti.[63]
The Dominican Republic is 95.2% Christian, including 88.6% Roman Catholic and 4.2% Protestant. Recent immigration, as well as proselytizing, has brought other religions, with the following shares of the population: Spiritist: 2.2%,[75] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: 1.1%,[76] Buddhist: 0.10%, Bahá'í: 0.1%,[75] Islam: 0.02%, Judaism: 0.01%, Chinese Folk Religion: 0.1%,[75] and Dominican Vudu (no census).
Near the end of His earthly ministry, Christ’s disciples asked Him what signs would precede His second coming. In response, Jesus Christ listed numerous events that would signal His impending return, including “earthquakes in various places” (Matthew 24:7). The recent powerful earthquake in Haiti does not mean Christ will return tomorrow. However, it does fit with the signs Christ Himself gave for His return.
God will use powerful end-time events to get the attention of many peoples around the globe. God is “… not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9). God will use these events to draw attention to His end-time gospel that will go forth to all the world, encouraging people to repent of their sins and return to Him and His way of life.
It is God’s desire to spare people from the consequences of the sins that they choose to live in, as He is a merciful and loving Father. In the meantime, our adversary, Satan the devil, hates human beings made in the image of God and is going forth as “a roaring lion … seeking whom he may devour” (1 Peter 5:8). And he is now especially angry because he knows he has “but a short time” left (Revelation 12:9-12).
Originally posted by Maegnas
I am curious though, when "Katrina" hit new Orleans, how many attributed its effects to 'infidelity'?
Originally posted by earthdude
Please explain why god punishes the innocent? Don't give me that "he works in mysterious ways' garbage. It is not very nice to drive people away from Jesus by spewing ignorance. In the name of God, you and Pat Robertson need to be silent.
15But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
16Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.
17Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
18Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
19Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.
20The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
21The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
22The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
23And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
24The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
25The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
26And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.
27The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
28The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:
Originally posted by Maegnas
reply to post by heliosprime
You will have to explain #27 as I don't recall any Egyptians or the state of Egypt involved in the recent quake
and as for #26, I think the dead in Haiti are already being buried.
Prayer to God works, prayer to satan through vudou does not......
One side of the island prays to God and is blessed, the other side to satan and is cursed.
Originally posted by Kandinsky
Not only must the OP be mentally and empathetically deficient,
Originally posted by john124
reply to post by heliosprime
Prayer to God works, prayer to satan through vudou does not......
One side of the island prays to God and is blessed, the other side to satan and is cursed.
What a load of tripe! Natural disasters kill whoever is in the way regardless of their religion and how they pray!
To some extent you are correct....but once killed where do you want to wake up? heaven or hell......can anyone really explain the hell of haiti without seeing it as cursed?
The greater issue is america needs to wake up....for all that is haiti's hell is on its way to america.......
Originally posted by unicorn1
I have seen a number of posts on the web trying to lay the blame for Haiti's situation (and even the earthquake) on it being a godless nation.
Frankly the fact that some folks have this view scares me much more than any NWO conspiracies.