It never cease to amaze me how people use times of disaster to appeal to emotions, for example, the pain of the Haitian people have been explain in religious terms nonstop. Riding the buses and walking the streets of New York, one is burden with the idiotic application of revolution, as people try to make sense of the Haitian disaster. Although not in blatant terms, as Pat Robertson’s, these people share the notion that God is the one that strike Haiti. For what, the reason is normally vague and nonsensical or some other religious faith is the one blame. God told us in revolution, they would lament. 
Voodoo, the religion blame by many as being the reason why the Christian God cause this horrible earthquake, is now suggesting that they also had mystical protection. Because a Voodoo practitioner, Marianne Lehmann, voodoo objects collection was not destroy. Isn’t that great, Instead of saving and protecting innocent lives; the Orisha found it much more important to protect statues?
"It's a lesson. All the pieces could be destroyed," she said. What lesson? Is she suggesting that everyone should become Voodoo because her collection happens to be speared the disaster? In fact, she said, "Some people say that we had protection, because the neighbouring houses were severely damaged, but ours wasn't." How great is that! The Sinicism is overwhelming.
If the Haitian saying Marianne Lehmann sites is true, and there "60 percent Catholic, 40 percent Protestant and 100percent voodoo," then why did the Voodoo spirits not stop the earthquake. I am sure someone will come up with a defense for the ancestors. Oh, here is one; there are too many Christians in Haiti. The Christian God is responsible for the earthquake, how about that.
I understand the happiness of Ms. Marianne Lehmann to find her collection still intact. After all, she spent 30 years collecting it. However, she not a “special” person; she is not favored by the ancestors. I am sure that Voodoo practicing people lost, not only there lives and positions, but their children, their wives, their husband, and other family members. What makes Ms. Marianne Lehmann special that the ancestors will spend time saving her collections, home, and neglect the other innocent people? Please stop Appling to emotions through the emotional connection to religion. This is a natural disaster and one that brought great grief to the Haitian people and their friends around the world. This natural disaster has nothing to do with any supernatural boogieman or boogiemen. Indeed, there are people whose belongings avoided the destruction as well and they are not Voodoo practitioners.  (How about that)
Furthermore, I call on Ms. Marianne Lehmann to abandon her Museum goal for now and use the 100,000 dollars she collected to the benefit the needs of the suffering Haitian people. I hope that the Ancestors remind her of the right thing to do since that the only thing she learn from the disaster is "We absolutely must ensure the building is built to withstand earthquakes." 
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