Christianity, paganism and Jamaican culture


	Christianity, paganism and Jamaican culture

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1-2-2008 8:06 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d8cde59a-4bc6-407e-b1ce-4abdfacb797f/70D83F25-D979-4899-9CCF-4E32F1CDAC94/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20071220/cleisure/cleisure2.html" href="http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20071220/cleisure/cleisure2.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.jamaica-gleaner.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20071220/cleisure/cleisure2.html"><FONT size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT size="5" face="stencil,tahoma"><B> L</B></FONT>loyd Cooke stirred up a wasp's nest when he labelled the cultural wake for the great Herb McKenley 'pagan'.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20071220/cleisure/cleisure2.html"><FONT size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"Our supposedly Christian nation," he wrote in "utter disgust and disappointment ... ought to express its strong disapproval of the use of our <A href="#" class="kLink" target="_new" id="KonaLink0"><FONT color="orange"><SPAN class="kLink">tax</SPAN></FONT></A> dollars to promote anti-Christian activities in our name".</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20071220/cleisure/cleisure2.html"><FONT size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The fundamental weakness in Cooke's argument is the presumption (double meaning intended) that Jamaica is a 'Christian' country. Even the Europeans who kept Africans in abject slavery here were, in the main, hardly Christians except in a very loose cultural sense, as the reports of the missionaries, to whom Cooke appeals, will attest.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20071220/cleisure/cleisure2.html"><FONT size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Cooke lashes the pagan worship of ancestral spirits. His critics might want to point out, however, that the worship of ancestral spirits is also deeply embedded in elements of Christianity where the preferred label is 'the veneration of saints'.</FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/70D83F25-D979-4899-9CCF-4E32F1CDAC94/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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