NationStates Jolt Archive

Today, Premier Bobby Jindal has signed into law making Voodoo an officially recognized religion in Communist Louisiana and her territories. Many citizens of CL cheered once the announcement was made this afternoon.

Today an estimated 60 million people practice voodoo throughout Communist Louisiana. Some anthropologists estimate that voodoo's roots in Benin—formerly Dahomey—West Africa may go back 6,000 years. The national religion of Communist Louisiana is Roman Catholicism. It is today officially followed by Voodoo.

Premier Bobby Jindal had the following to say about the law:

I think its a great move to recognize Voodoo as an officially recognized religion. It believes and follows alot of the ideas of Catholicism but goes further into the unknown. New Orleans is the birth place and life long home of famed voodoo queen Marie Laveau. She became the most famous and powerful voodoo queen in the world, so powerful that she acclaimed herself the Pope of Voodoo in the 1830s. She was respected and feared by thousands including the Catholic church.

This is Louisiana Public Broadcasting wishing you all the best and a good night.

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Official Burnsian Desert Propeganda Statement

So you are turning your country over to a belief that tries to kill people using magic wax and spells?

To:Communist Louisana
I kill anyone the practices Voodoo and so should you,if you dont i will do it for you!

The Catholic Cardinalatial See condemns this move. Voodoo practicitioners are shot on site in Cherry Ridge
Cardinal DeVito
Archbishop and Ruler of Cherry ridge

TO: TBD
FROM: CL

Black Magic?

In the West voodoo has been portrayed in zombie movies and popular books as dark and evil, a cult of devil worship dominated by black magic, human sacrifice, and pin-stuck voodoo dolls—none of which exist in the voodoo practices that originated in Benin.

In Haiti voodoo began as an underground activity. During the 1700s thousands of West African slaves were shipped to Haiti to work on French plantations.

The slaves were baptized as Roman Catholics upon their arrival in the West Indies. Their traditional African religious practices were viewed as a threat to the colonial system and were forbidden. Practitioners were imprisoned, whipped, or hung.

But the slaves continued to practice in secret while attending masses. What emerged was a religion that the colonialists thought was Catholicism—but they were outfoxed.

Hybrid Rituals

It was easy to meld the two faiths, because there are many similarities between Roman Catholicism and voodoo, Corbett said. Both venerate a supreme being and believe in the existence of invisible evil spirits or demons and in an afterlife.

Each religion also focuses its ceremonies around a center point—an altar in Catholicism, a pole or tree in voodoo. Their services include symbolic or actual rituals of sacrifice and consumption of flesh and blood, Corbett noted.

Many of the Loa resemble Christian saints, endowed with similar responsibilities or attributes. For example, Legba, an old man, is said to open the gates between Earth and the world of the Loa, much like St. Peter traditionally throws wide the gates to heaven.

But there are differences. Westerners tend to believe in free will and personal choice. Not so in voodoo.

"The Haitian people have a view of the world that is unimaginably different from ours," Corbett said. The Loa are believed to determine our lives to an astonishing degree, he explains, and they are always present in great numbers: There might be two people in a room, but there are also 20 Loa.

"Our view is dominated by physical, touchable reality. In Haiti the spirits are as real as your wife or your dog," Corbett said.

Like any other religious practice, voodoo brings great benefits, explains Warberg, the photographer. "Participation in voodoo ritual reaffirms one's relationships with ancestors, personal history, community relationships—and the cosmos. Voodoo is a way of life," she said.


TO: Jackdonia
FROM: CL

That better not be a threat you small puny nation.

Colodia condems all acts of violence against CL, and will help CL destroy (litterally) all those that attempt to resort to any senseless acts of war against the nation.

To:CL
FCrom
Jackdonia
We may be puny but we bite,and we laugh at your threat.
We are killing Voodoo people on sight.

When asked about this move, the President of Crazed Marines said, "These people have to be friggin nuts. Give themselves to magic and 'stuff' like that? Plain nuts."
In a related story, Crazed Marines has reaffirmed its strong ties with Christianity and re-outlawed Voodoo and related practices.

To:CL
FCrom
Jackdonia
We may be puny but we bite,and we laugh at your threat.
We are killing Voodoo people on sight.
From: Colodia
To: Jackdonia

Message:
Can you be more specific? Are you killing them with laughter by your pitiful threats? That sounds most logical...

To:Coldia
We are bombing thier Voodoo churches and having no mercy on our own Voodoo people.

to:CL
from:Cardinal DeVito of CR
We strongly erge you to reconsider this, in the name of the Catholic Church. They are a great threat to you. They have tricked and decieved many. In CR we do the opposite. We have a policy of SOS (shoot on sight) with Voo Doo practicitioners. Please respond
Cardinal DeVito, archbishop and ruler of Cherry Ridge

Those who condemn this religion are no better than racist in our eyes.

To:Coldia
We are bombing thier Voodoo churches and having no mercy on our own Voodoo people.
You are bombing churches within your own country? That seems rather...stupid of your Generals. Hire some new ones.

To:CL

Those Voodoo people are evil and deserve to die!
And i will have no mercy on them.

To:Coldia
We are bombing CL's Voodoo churches not ouurs.

That proves how moronic the Jackdonian people are. Voodoo practioners do not have churches you moron. Also, some 95% of people who practice voodoo are baptised Roman Catholic and attend Catholic Church regulary.

To:Coldia
We are bombing CL's Voodoo churches not ouurs.
Nono, that's silly. See, if you WERE within CL, your bombers would be roasting on his land on fire. Not to mention, both his leader and ours would've declared war on you.

And your country will be used as a giant swimming pool. Fitting for the hole we'll put in the middle of it.

To:CL

Okay,I have enough with you!
I mean it this time i am bombing your people to kill Voodoo once and for all!

You are an idiot to mess with me!

I would love to see what VX Nerve Agents would do to millions. Especially to millions of my enimes.

I would love to see what VX Nerve Agents would do to millions. Especially to millions of my enimes.
sounds like fun, we've only got simple tactical nuclear weapons.

To:CL
I have dropped anthrax and lots of deadly virus and using VX Never Killer too.
Unless you stop praticing Voodoo your country will go down in flames

Eredron sees little ground for international involvement in what is largely an internal affair of Communist Louisiania; as the legislation passed in CL violates no human rights or treatises, the Republic of Eredron rejects those nations seeking to interdict and interfere with the sovereignty of Communist Louisiana.

OOC: I see n00bs are alive and well in NS still.

Too bad Voodoo isnt a religion, its a belief and you can have other religions with it.

To:CL
I have dropped anthrax and lots of deadly virus and using VX Never Killer too.
Unless you stop praticing Voodoo your country will go down in flames
President Michael Pepper makes an announcement on CNN

The government of Jackdonia further shows us it's incapability to run a country. Furthermore, they shore us their incapability of telling the difference between deadly weapons and a container carrying the blood of someone with AIDS.

Nice work Jackdonia. An AIDS-weapon.[/sarcasm]

Colodia will reply by sending 500,000 troops and 2,000 tanks. Nuclear weapons may be considered, seeing as how we seriously want this country to no longer stand.

The Roman government applauds the move by Communist Louisiana, as freedom of religion has taken a huge leap forward. In Rome, any religion is tolerated (including voodooism) provided that the religion respects the rights of others (e.g., it does not advocate theft, murder, etc.).

Jackdonia will step down and let CL's people practice Voodoo.

CL,
I am sending you a 2 mil money gift because i am sorry for what i did!

We have some 500,000 troops ready to change the government of Jackdonia.

Jackdonia will step down and let CL's people practice Voodoo.

CL,
I am sending you a 2 mil money gift because i am sorry for what i did!
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To:Everyone Involved

I am really sorry for what i did,it was really dumb,and my threats have been withdrawn.

We have some 500,000 troops ready to change the government of Jackdonia.

For once the Iuthian government couldn't give a damn what happens to such a nation. Normally we would complain; pointing out how a nations soverignity comes first and so on... but clearly these people don't even know how to run their nation and cannot themselves respect that some nations have different religions.

Perhaps we would prefer that you weren't so harsh... but we won't think any less of you if you exact your vengance on a nation which would bomb your people over such a small issue.

Wow! Hell has frozen over! Iuthia isnt going to bitch at me! Cheers!!!!

We accept Jackdonia's appology.

I gave a public aplogy,please forgive me i don t want anyone invading my land and murdering my people, I am sorry!

Well, in that case I would suggest you offer a surrender to Communist Louisiana for your pre-emptive actions against their populace. Perhaps it can be conditional and we would like to make sure that Communist Louisiana doesn't annex your nation... but you will have to appease them, not us.

CL,
I make a formal surrender now.
Dont annex my land okay?

CL,
I make a formal surrender now.
Dont annex my land okay?
You still pissed off us Colodians. We demand that you pick us the ripest fruit from your fruit crops...and BURN the rest down! And on that fire, cook your most beautiful women there. And with that body, hundreds of maggots will have a home!

Wow, that's even worse than my plan. I was just going to cut their leader's arms off with a plasma torch and beat him to death with his own arms...
I'll have to write that one down for ruture rederence.

To-Communist Louisiana
From-Doomingslandian Imperial Government

After reviewing the fact that you allow voodoo to be practiced in your country, we have a request. We would like to deport the five thousand voodoo practicioners that reside in our nation, and would like to know if you would recieve them.

My borders are open to all.

From Adolf Gorreing* to all nations:

Imperial Germany wish to annouce today that Imperial Germany offically recognizes the belief of Voodoo in our lands of Germany, Poland, the Maldives, East Timor, and the Midway Islands. We are pleased that Communist Lousisiana is doing the same, despite our different government types.

*Chief Forgien Affairs Officer.

Though little can be said the government of Neo-Soviet Russia is pleased to see that Communist Louisiana is paying attention and taking note a decent percent of it's heritage. Though officially a nation with no 'official' religion and instead attempting to be impartial regardless of beliefs, we feel a need for people to be open when it comes to different systems of belief

The USSNSR though also finds it sickening that certain countries are making threats merely due to the recognition of a religion. It is disappointing to see nations so afraid when nothing has in essence been changed.

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Although organized religion is banned in Avadria we beg the question. What about those who practice Hoodoo?

We applaud the actions taken by Communist Louisiana in recognizing a religion that is practiced by many people. But we ask why not practice Mahkat it is a mixture of Islam Buddhism and Voodoo. It is set up very much like Catholicism with the bishops and such. But according to Islamic faiths if someone were to ask the Lhama Ta (the churches caretaker usually a very old man or woman) if they may present a sermon then they usually may.