Voodoo And Catholicism

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='HisChildForever' post='1743326' date='Jan 5 2009, 10:36 AM']How do you people know all this stuff? I wish I was this smart.[/quote]
If you're referring to me personally, it's actually nothing at all.
I'm in the seperate school board, which is a government funded Catholic system. They have that in Alberta, amazingly.
The biggest difference between us and the public system is that we're required to take religion classes in kindergarten through until grade twelve. In high school, part of the curriculum is world religions, and grade eleven and twelve spend a fair bit of time on some Asian religions, which for us included Shinto, Taoism, Buddhism... plus still like Sikhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and other Christian denominations.

No big secret. I had to take a couple tests on it.

[Tinkerlina]

[quote name='Ziggamafu' post='1743283' date='Jan 5 2009, 09:25 AM']Before I gave my life back to Christ (which was years before I gave my life fully to his Church) there was a time that I considered myself a Taoist. Taoism is much easier to bridge to Christianity than other religions and philosophies. The thing about the Tao Te Ching - the original and prime text of Taoism - is that it is a philosophical text. Later on texts appeared that blended Taoism with other religions. Anyway, there are many passages of the Tao Te Ching that seem very prophetic of Christ, which reminds me of the theory that God has spoken to various non-Christian cultures through shadowy types (which of course tend to be obfuscated by other errors in the religions) to aid in preparing a given people to receive the Gospel.

To this day, Chinese Bible translations use the word "Tao" to translate "Logos" and, if I recall correctly, Taoism was used in many ways when the Chinese people were first evangelized. There is a book called [i]Christ the Eternal Tao[/i] that researches the topic.[/quote]

Interesting-I definitely agree about God speaking to non Christian cultures throughout history. Have you ever read anything about J.R.R Tolkien's "True Myth" concept? It's pretty cool. In case you haven't heard of it, here's a link to an article about it by Joseph Pearce who did a great autobiography on Tolkien: [url="http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/arts/al0107.html"]http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/arts/al0107.html[/url] -Katie