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Old 02-15-2010, 05:33 PM
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Default Is voodoo responsible for the legality of child slavery in Haiti?

What a lame country.
With 80% christian in the country, you would think that strong christian morals would have shown the obvious wrongness in selling your kids to be servants/slaves.
Maybe they aren't true Christians?
http://www.iabolish.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=68:ch ild-slavery-in-haiti&catid=23:main&Itemid=26
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Old 02-19-2010, 05:33 PM
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'Is voodoo responsible for the legality of child slavery in Haiti?'
Voodoo has conflicting sects in Haiti, I wouldn't be so quick to blame them.

Christianity has ruined Haiti, if anyone bothers to look at the history.
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Old 02-21-2010, 05:33 PM
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I just love it when Christians say "Maybe they aren't two Christians'

34,000 denominations of Christianity
ranging from ultra liberal to ultra fascist
which one is 'Twoo'?

<and - to address your question, cultural child slavery usually exists alongside cultural extreme poverty.... you will also find it in many other parts of the world>
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Old 02-24-2010, 05:33 PM
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When the USA was 99% Christian our strong Christian morals did not prevent the country from importing slaves, nor enslaving the children of slaves.

After abolition the USA was still 99% Christian and children were living in near slavery, working in mines and factories before the passage of child labor laws.

The book of Leviticus states "You may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance."

Strong Christian morals are fully compatible with slavery. There's plenty of biblical support for slavery in Ephesians 6, Exodus 21 (ironically), parts of Leviticus and two or three other books. As far as I can tell Voodoo morals do not support slavery and the spirit of Voodoo, being a Diaspora religion conceived as a rebellion to the slave and plantation culture of the 1700's, would be opposed to it on general principal.

The Hatian government is trying to crack down on the practice but that could be more of a progressive human rights ethic.

Slavery is biblicalLyupported (with strictures, but none too imposing on the slave owner) so it is biblically moral, therefore slavery is moral from a Christian perspective.
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