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New World Voudo: Three lines but but one fight!

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New World Voudou is a religion founded in the Diaspora. Haitian Voudou is best known, but there are three primary lines of Voudou. Dominican, Haitian, and Puerto Rican. All three lines of New World Voudou are monotheistic. God is absolute, ineffable, flawless, and eternal. In Haiti, God is Papa Bondye. In Dominican and Puerto Rican lines, God is Papa Bon Dios. They are the same God; only the French and Spanish languages denote a difference. Voudou is a spiritual counter to the institution of slavery. For humanity to advance, the keeping of enslaved people (a worldwide practice) needs to be globally outgrown. In the Diaspora, the forced culmination of cultures, namely African, European, and Native Islander, created a perfect storm. All three cultures had a societal elite who engaged in selling their people as enslaved people. All three cultures had people who experienced the horrors of this trade. All three cultures came to mingle on the Island of Hispanola (Haiti/Dominican Republic) an