[MissEdie]

Someone please enlighten me, why isn’t the Dominican Republic as bad as Haiti? They are on the same island.

[dglang]

Gerat question to ask, it gets right to the ehart of the Issue. I believe that the Dominican Republic is largely Catholic and therefore somewhat if not mostly Christian. There is some occult influence there, but haiti is mostly Occultic or Santanna in religion.

Any nation where God is honored will be honored and protected by God. Where God is rejected, God has NO obligation to protect that nation or it’s peoples.

God would have spared Sodom and Gommorah if there weer ten righteous people there. If there were enough righteous Godly people in Haiti, He would have protected and spared it as well.

It is amazing that even the British press would recognize the Satanic natuer of Haiti when Britian as a nation is only about 1% Christian.

I have an evangelist friend who was born and raised in Britian and who is very well known world wide. He for a time ran a church here in Orlando before returning to Britian.

He shared with the church just how back sliden Britian is in it’s relationship with God.

I’ve recently received a few emails from my friend and he said that he will soon be returning here to plant another church. He stated that he is actively looking for a new venue to house the church.

[Travis McGee]

The DomRep was a Spanish colony, for better or worse, on a similar cultural track as Cuba or Puerto Rico.

Haiti was born of a slave rebellion in 1804, almost all of the whites were killed or driven off. Then they were set adrift in history for the 19th century, at least until after our civil war, as a bad example to our own slaves.

What emerged was a “tradition” (sic) of strongmen who do nothing but loot what they can for themselves, for as long as possible.

There is more, voodoo etc, but that’s a start.

[PowderMonkey]

I've spent time in both places. The Domincans were smart enough to wall themselves off from the Haitians early on. Different as night and day. The Dominicans have a popular expression when things aren't’ going well. They say “Hey! At least we ain't Haiti!” As near as I can figure, it's the lasting effect of the French colonial presence. It's the same in Africa. Francophone West Africa is a dump compared to the former British and Dutch/German colonies in East and Southern Africa...not to mention that voodoo arrived in Haiti from West Africa, and has kept the Haitians mired in darkness and superstition ever since.

[Clemenza]

DR is also populated predominantly by folks of African descent, but because they have some white blood, they don’t consider themselves black. A Dominican may look like Will Smith, but “black” to him is the illegal Haitian begging in the streets.