User blog comment:El Patron1/An important Voodoo note/@comment-1051147-20101014134954

Do remember that the peoples of the region were mostly slaves from Africa, who brought their various beliefs with them.

They had Christianity forced upon them, along with tolerating each other's belief systems.

Voodoo was born out of that. They combined the various ideas into a religion that all could work with. Which is interesting that they chose to do that instead of fight over which was right or wrong.