የክርስቶስ መዐዛ The Aroma of Christ

By Solomon Belete A Response To Greg Koulkl’s Christmas Promoting Article I read an article by Greg Koukl promoting Christmas, posted on brother Tesfaye Robele's Facebook page. Tesfaye Robele's prologue to the paper and Greg Koukl's apologetics for this Catholic tradition prompted my reaction to write a response. Therefore, you'll find Robele's prologue, Koukl's article, and my answer in that order. Tesfaye Robele's prologue to the article reads:  "Jehovah's witnesses do claim that celebrating Christmas (and everything associated with it) is a pagan origin! It is a logical fallacy to judge the truth or falsehood of a proposition on the basis of its source of what motivates someone to believe it (its genesis). In other words, the legitimacy (reliability) of sources or motives does not make a proposition true or false. Thus it is a fallacy to assume or conclude that religious beliefs or practices are false just because they are acquired by psycholo

By Solomon Belete Haile February 6, 2015 A friend texted me regarding a story aired on the Voice of America Radio, Amharic Service program on February 2nd, 2015. It’s about a sexual assault allegation. A prominent Ethiopian Pastor and gospel music singer was accused of sexually assaulting a married woman. "If the allegations were substantiated," I texted back to my friend, "it’s unfortunate." Now that I listened to the broadcast, the following is my opinion, and I’d like to share it with you. You can feel from the outset that the host of the program, Mr. Addisu Abebe appears to be enjoying the murky story. I felt sad when I listened to the back-and-forth between him and the accusers. Mr. Abebe found the poor moral behavior exhibited by these Christians to be potentially newsworthy. He then milked the story as much as he could and prepared a “special report.” After all, these married couples were presenting a vulgar accusation against one of their own. A famo