Dawit Hailu

The history of Ethiopia under your ruthless master Meles Seitanawi is like the history of Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe except Mugabe has not cashed in foreign money by selling innocent children and beautiful girls to the Arab world. The history of Ethiopia under your greedy master Meles Seitanawi is a dark history that divested Ethiopia of its sea outlets. The history of Ethiopia under your dictator Meles Seitanawi is a history that denied the Ethiopian people their natural rights to speak freely, to write facts about their regime, and to have access to modern transportation, health care, pure drinking water, adequate sewages, and proper visitations to their loved ones who are unjustly jailed at Kaliti. To tell you the truth, there is no democratically elected government in Ethiopia, and there is no difference between Ethiopia and Somalia – two countries without a legitimate government. There is nothing I can say about Ogaden because you have completely destroyed it, so there is no point to talk about the dead young and old people of Ogaden, but their blood, the blood of the Amhara, and the blood of Oromo people will accuse you in front of a justice government that would come and pulverize into piece your selfish master’s regime. Then, you would have no place to hide, and you always think any person you meet is your killer. Yes, Ethiopia was known for its wealth under Emperor Haile Selassie, but under the thief Dictator Meles Seitanawi, Ethiopia is known for its children’s deaths. Are you telling the world that there is no famine in Ethiopia? Yes, you and Meles and his political gangs may have plenty to eat, plenty to drink, and plenty to wear, but the poor Ethiopian peasants have no a single penny in their pockets.

By the way, ask your master Meles Zenawi if has come across the recently lost Ethiopian gold? Would you? Also, ask him why he sold Gondar’s fertile land to Sudan. Please, ask him, since you are one of his stool-pigeons, if he is running for reelection to destroy the country completely. Under your master Meles’s regime, Ethiopia will become the disease and famine basket of the world, not the bread basket of the world. You are right though “a fifth grader in the U.S. knows more about Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Ogaden history more than you two.” What about a fifth grader in Ethiopia; you don’t have him because of the AIDS and the famine, and that is why you picked up a fifth grade child from the U.S. rather than from Ethiopia. Shame on you, my friend! Can you tell me the history of Eritrea? I know Eritrea is a free country, purposely separated from its mother land Ethiopia by the selfish motive of your god, Meles Seitanawi, and it is more stable than your country Ethiopia while your country is fighting with the Ogaden, Somalia, and others. There will never be peace in Ethiopia as far as Meles Seitanawi is in power, but the good thing is that his days and yours are numbered.

Most Ethiopians are honest, but it does not look you are one of them because the person who originated the famous sentence you plagiarized was Karl Marx, who said: “Religion is the opium of the people.” You should have, at least, given him a credit by putting the sentence into an open and ended quote. Remember the readers of ER are watching you very carefully and judging you how simpleton you are.

Religion is not a drag, a marihuana, hashish, a chat, opium, or a bad habit; it is a conviction, a person’s innermost desire to find his creator so that he/she could have a meaningful life in this world and in the other world to come. When a person refuses to let Jesus into his heart, then he will have a confused life; then he becomes addicted to drags, and the drag becomes his religion, and it will be very hard to get out of this kind of religion and come to the real religion: to have Jesus Christ as a personal savior.

It is a historical fact that most philosophers, scientists, and great politicians are the children of the Church and have religion; the Church has given indispensable services to the world. It is the Church that brought this world from darkness to light – to modernity – through its religion. Without the Church, the world would have become a world of lawless and uncivilized people. The Church through its religion has worked miracles and wonders in this world, and that is why Jesus Christ gave his life for this Church.

You can call religion what ever name you want, but you don’t have the power to change it because it is real; Karl Marx and its followers tried hard to destroy the Russian Orthodox Church for over 70 years, but they failed, and their ideologies collapsed, and the Church once again triumphed.

You said: “Gettu you seem to be a white man under Ethiopian pen name.” Is it a curse to be a white man? Is it curse to be a black man? As my name suggests I’m an Ethiopian, and as an Ethiopian, I love all races, especially, to make you more angry, I love the white race – they are my best brothers and sisters since Ethiopia is the origin of human beings. In fact, you don’t deserve to carry the name “Gonder,” because most people from Gonder are religious people – people who believe in one God and worship him every day. Gonder is famous for its traditional Church education. Students from other Ethiopia’s provinces used to converge into the Gonder region to get their education. It seems you didn’t get that chance, and that is why you are confused with your intellect. Any way, you chose the name Gonder so that people would respect you as an educated and a religious person. Now they know now who you are, a disciple of Karl Marx, an iconoclast, a Darwinian, a communist, and a racist that should be condemned and sent to Kaliti if not to Siberia.

You further said: “I don’t like any race that thinks they are better, stronger, smarter, or the true race.” Well, if you think the white people think they are better, stronger, and smarter than any other race, then prove to them that you are better, stronger, and smarter than they are. Until you do this, you remain throughout your life as a damn and ignorant African slave.

You also continue to say: “I don’t prefer my race to any one else’s.” No one asks you to take your race from you; you can keep your race to yourself, but don’t mess with the other race, which is not yours. While the race issue is fading away, you are resurrecting it, because you feel inferior to the other race. If you believe in God, you will never feel neglected, despised, ignored, segregated, and this is my first time to communicate with an Ethiopian who feel his race is inferior to the other race. Ethiopians have always been proud of their race and their faith in God.

Let me straighten the fact once again; I’m not the first one who said that Lucy is the mother of all human beings; it was those who examined her skeleton who said that she is the mother of all people, but you are the one who confused Lucy the woman with Lucy the monkey.

Have faith in God, and he will enlighten you more than any one else! Denounce Evolution, Communism, and accept Jesus Christ as your personal savior.

A fifth grader in the US knows more about Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Ogaden history more than you two. Blaming a Prime Minister who advanced Ethiopia to be known for its wealth rather than what we have been hearing for half century ‘famine’ ‘drought’ ‘war’ is totally unacceptable by my generation. Ethiopia will become the bread basket of the world once people like you are removed from society by any means necessary.

Black is power
Bye

I’m delighted you have finally believed in God, the creator of the universe. It looks though you are a slaw learner and a purblind person because I have never said in all my comments that black Americans are equal to whites, because Obama is competing? I have no idea where you got this kind of statement. What I said was that anyone is equal in the eyes of God, and if anyone works hard, no matter what skin color he/she has, can achieve the American dreams. If you misquote me, those who read my comments will judge you gently or fairly, and it is up to them.

Do you think if Martin Luther King Jr., listened to what I said: “All humans are equal in the eyes of God” would be offended? I don’t think so. King fought hard for the equality of all races, not just for blacks like you and me. Martin Luther King in his famous speech “I have a dream,” said: ‘we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.’ His statement, be sure, includes Lucy the woman who is created in the likeness of God, too.

Are you saying the white people brought the Hurricane Katrina and destroyed millions of blacks as a result? Am I not right to call you a purblind man? When a natural disaster hits a certain area, there will be, of course, loses of properties and human lives. You said: “Why millions of blacks are dead due to Hurricane Katrina?” Please, go back and read the statistics that tells you how many people, in fact, died because of this horrible natural disaster. You said millions of blacks died, not a single white man, according to your estimation. Statistics shows that about 1,836 people died, not millions, and the death toll includes both whites and blacks. A disaster is not like you, a discriminator; when a disaster hits, it hits indiscriminately – blacks and whites – there is no partiality there.

Don’t exaggerate, please; tell the facts as they are: About 1, 836 people lost their lives, not millions; yes, the property damage was in billions, and the white people didn’t bring the disaster; nature did!

Why do we have to condemn research on Lucy? This type of research, one day, may tell us how Lucy died either from natural death or from the cause of lightening or may be some one broke her house to rob her and kill her as she was resisting to give up her hunting tools. Research is very important if it is done properly and wisely and for the benefits of human beings, not to prove humans were animals. It is through research that we were able to invent penicillin and many other useful inventions such as cars, airplanes, radios, television, telephone, Internet, and many others. Therefore, I’m not against research either on Lucy or on any other living things and non living things.

Selam leke weselam lebetesbike!

Excellent points! I will add as number 16 to your valid points, i.e, Meles has sold indispensable Church artifacts such as Geez book, paintings, gold cross, and gold crowns.

Please, give me a break!

No, you are once again wrong about my skin color, and I’m willing to correct you, if you don’t mind. God accepts all of us as we are; he doesn’t care about our outside appearances as he cared too much about our inside thing – the heart. The Holy Bible says: “Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and do not be stiff-necked any longer” (Deuteronomy 10:16). Any person who has a humble heart but physically deformed or an attractive in appearance is more acceptable to God than the one attractive, pleasant, good looking person without a humble heart. Whenever you look at some people’s appearance, I want you to remember what the great prophet Isaiah says: “He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not” (53:2-3). You figure it out who the prophet is talking about and why. Therefore, whether I’m white, black, brown, red, and yellow, with a flat or straight nose, thick or thin lips, short or long hair, and big or small eyes, I’m not proud of my outside appearance, but I’m proud of my humble heart, and if I work hard in my community or in any other community, I believe I will achieve the highest social, economic, and political status.

Look, how many black milliners we have today in America; their colors did not impede them from becoming great celebrities, mayors, governors, senators, judges, scientists, great theologians, and astronauts, so my skin color will not stifle my desire to be one of these great black Americans or great white Americans, Mexican Americans, Chinese Americans, Italian Americans, Irish Americans, and Asian Americans.

To be frank with you, I’m not concerned too much about Michael Jackson’s nose; before he attempted an operation on his nose, Michael Jackson was already an accomplished celebrity. In other words, he can do anything he wants about his body, and I don’t want to imitate his appearance; if I want to emulate something, I will emulate the spiritual aspects of any person not his/her evanescent physical appearance.

Yes, Meles Seitanawi deserves a lot of credit not for progress but for magbesbes; God knows who the real losers under Meles Seitanawi are. It is the Ethiopian peasants who are the real losers under your cousin Meles Seitanawi. They are the ones whose land was sold to another country, whose gold was shipped to the Arabian Peninsula, whose camels were taken with little money to them and sold at high price somewhere out side the country, whose natural rights are considered impediment for Meles selfish motives, and whose kings are ridiculed by Meles Seitanawi. If you need more evidence about Meles’ ruthlessness, go to Ogaden, to Oromo, and to the Amhara region, and they will tell you what has happened to their children, to their brothers, and to their sisters.

As always, the Christian Church has been triumphant over so many charlatans, the so called scientists, who deny creationism but believe, without any proof, in evolution. The debate, even though the Church has won a Pyrrhic victory on this and other issues, between scientific evolution and biblical creation has been with us for several years, and it will continue until these soi-distant scientists like you a changeling with great vacuity are proven wrong.

To make this discussion simple and short, I ask you to do the following: Go to your fossil; I will go to my Bible; go to your master, Charles Darwin; I will go to my master and creator, Jesus Christ; go to your Big Bang theory; I will go to the Six Days of Creation, which is not a theory but a reality; go to your Dinosaur; I will go to the Great Flood.

By the way, where do you get the idea that Jehovah Witness is a confused religion that does not know the difference between science and religion? I advise you to go to one of their meetings and learn the truth; this is desideratum before your farcical judgment about some ones’ faith.

The significance of Lucy, if she has any, is to you not to me because I believe all human beings are the same – they propagate, they live, they die, and in the last day, by the power of Christ Jesus, they com back to life. When Jesus comes back, Lucy the woman, not Lucy the monkey, will also come to life and stand for the last judgment; whatever you do with her skeleton now, it doesn’t matter. You too will come back to life, unless you are changed into a monster through your evolution – your religion.

You have asked me to read articles about Lucy; I have already read my Bible about Lucy the woman and others created by the living God (Genesis 2:22), but for a curiosity, I may read those articles if I get time because I have read so many articles about evolution and some court cases concerning this old and time consuming discussion.

It seems you have a problem with black race and white race because of, perhaps, your extreme views about evolution that lead you into this problem. To tell you the truth, I don’t have any problem with any race: black, white, red, yellow, brown, for I follow not what evolution says but what the Bible says: There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are one in Jesus Christ” (Galatians 3:28).

In conclusion, I say all articles written in support of evolution are Charles Darwin-breathed and are not useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in human development; however, “All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness…” (2 Timothy 3:16). Therefore, the Holy Bible is my pabulum – a book that gives me spiritual nourishment while the articles you want me to read give me, perhaps if I read them, confusions and bewilderment. I am settled with my creation, and you go and enjoy your evolution; who knows, one day, you may be changed into an African lion or still better into an African donkey.

Thank you for reading my comment about Dinknesh: I believe Dinknesh was born as a human being and died as any other person at a young age or at an old age. For those of us who believe in creation, there is no such a thing that she was an animal for some times, and then after many, many years, she became human. God created every thing – all kinds of living and non living things – once at a certain time – and he was finished; he doesn’t have to create something every day.

I agree with you she should take some rest, but I don’t think she would get affected by HIV because the chemical-free food she had been eating for a long time could protect her from such and other diseases. Those pure and natural foods she had been enjoying in her time are no where to be found today; they are gone forever, and we will never get them back. Too bad! Nowadays, every thing we eat and every thing we drink have been diluted with something else, which is not good for our health, so our immune system is weak and easily vulnerable to any diseases. I don’t think our body would last for a long time after we died, but since we are close relatives to Dinknesh, it may last for at least 1 or 2 million years.

Whether Lucy is a human being or an animal, it doesn’t matter, both are created at a certain time by God’s word, and there is no such thing as evolution. Man is always man, and monkeys are always monkeys. It has been that way, and it remains the same way until the creator changes it for good or bad; for bad because we are sinners; for good because God loves us, and by his grace we will be saved. Rejecting Lucy or accepting her does not make Ethiopian scientists, Ethiopian church fathers, Muslims, Christians, and Jews ignorant as Mr. Gonder suggests.

Thank you for your deep concern about the Woyanne people, my people, your people, who are indiscriminately destroying our brothers, sisters, fathers and mothers from Ogaden, Oromo, and Amhara. I have been patient with these Woyanne people for a long, long, time, thinking they would come to their senses and stop killing, cheating, and plundering their own brothers and sisters because they are not ethnically related to them. I gave them plenty of time to repent about the blood shed they have been spilling on the streets of Addis Ababa, Gondar, Oromo, Ogaden, and on any other streets of the provinces. The blood of these innocent Ethiopians is tickling me to say something against those killers whom you call our brothers and sisters, and I don’t doubt they are our brothers and sisters. When Cain slaughtered his brother Abel, what did God do to Cain the murder? God said to Cain: “Now you are under a curse and driven from the ground, which opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand” (Genesis 4:11). To me these murders Woyanne are under the curses of many Ethiopians, old and young, and wherever they are, we should condemn them for their atrocities on the Ethiopian people. I came from a warrior and proud tribe, and that tribe is now whipped out, trying to protect its land, and its people, its heritage, and no one is left; the entire village is gone, thanks to the Woyanne people. I hope what happened to my village will never happen to yours, and God forbid!

I will continue to tell the Woyanne people what they are doing to the Ethiopians is offensive in the eyes of the Almighty God; I don’t hate any person, but what I hate is the person’s bad actions toward his fellows. It is true my advisor the Apostle Paul tells me: “Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: ‘It is mine to avenge; I will repay…’” (Romans 12:17-19). Throughout my life, I have tried to live in peace with every body, but I cannot live in peace with Woyanne; it is almost impossible from what I hear from other people about the heinous crimes the Woyanne people are committing almost on every day basis. May the good Lord prevent them from committing further crimes, forgive them, bring peace to Ethiopia, and to all of us in diaspora!