Practitioners of syncretic beliefs, such as Tarot, which mixes Hebraic, Egyptian, Gypsy, and Germanic traits, could gain from acknowledging the positive contributions of their Western upbringing. Just as Jesus was killed for his beliefs, so too have countless people who refused to rescind their traditional beliefs been killed by Christian missionaries over the past two millenium. Modern missionaries don't kill any more but they do erase indiginous beliefs around the world which are then replaced by conversion to other western ways such as capitalism, alcoholism, etc. This Religious Intolerance can be seen in North America as well. Animistic beliefs have been held by humans longer than any other types of spiritual beliefs and they cover the broadest range of territory.
Latin anima means soul.
Animists, like native Americans, Africans, Pacific Islanders, etc., traditionaly believe that every entity has a spirit within it. This can be explained scientificaly since ALL is made up of atoms which are just negative and positive energy seperated by space. The Rasta understanding of what babylon is.