Religion is the opium of the people: Mnangagwa a pathological charlatan

According to Karl-Marx religion has similar practical functions in society to those functions of opium abusers. Religions reduce people's immediate suffering and provide them with pleasant illusions, but it also reduces their energy and willingness to fight oppression in their midst: says Karl Marx. Many dictatorships love to go to churches mainly as a show and an opportunity to convey their own political interests, and certainly not out of conviction or belief. This scenario played out well this last Easter time when we saw President Mnangagwa at the annual gathering of Zion Christian Church event that took place in Bikita.

Here is President Mnangagwa: a murderer, a thug, Mondi chiyo, is given a platform by the church elders to preach peace and forgiveness at Easter time. This very new President cannot afford to spell forgiveness to the crimes against humanity, he and his Zanu Pf party and government committed the past 38 years. He cannot even forgive the G-40 cabal; he selectively purges those individual enemies he targets as foreign currency externalizers. He has avoided a simple word SORRY for the crimes of genocide nature and crimes against humanity committed against all peoples of Zimbabwe at home and abroad. He cannot say sorry for the hate speeches he vomits each time he gets a gullible audience: PASI NE MANDU! Even to date, those are his opening words in a Zanu PF rally, pasi naye; which means death to the enemy?

Is President Mnangagwa the right person to tell the gullible congregants to be peaceful and blanket forgiving one another? Mnangagwa does not know the word peace, Mnangagwa cannot forgive his enemies. Can Mnangagwa then demonstrate to us and forgive the G-40 as a sign of forgiveness because he and all of us need peace in this great country as his powerful Easter message. Mnangagwa is giving Mrs Grace Mugabe a torrid time in their "Blue Roof" residence, Mrs Mugabe is being tortured daily and for the personal "crimes" the Former First Lady committed against Mnangagwa. But because Mnangagwa has personal issues Mrs Mugabe: he has a personal vendetta to grind with Grace Mugabe will never forgive Grace; will never forgive G-40. Can Mnangagwa forgive Mrs Mugabe as a sign of Easter message of forgiveness? If he cannot forgive those who offended him, why ask for forgiveness from others? Why ask for peace if there is no peace in his Zanu PF party and government?

President Mnangagwa signed into law the National Peace and Reconciliation Act after assuming power in 2017. What are peace and reconciliation if there is no truth in the act signed? Evidently, he evades truth but wants all the processes done by what he prescribed at his discretion. Forgiveness cannot take place under such conditions and there can never peace and forgiveness without truth. Peace, truth and forgiveness are not possible in this country without genuinely and truthfully confronting the past evils committed in the past. Mnangagwa is playing power over the people of Zimbabwe. He has the military on his side that put him into power. His presence in Bikita Easter conference gave him the opportunity to rely the underlying message: elections: he also got the chance to campaign for elections He mixes his campaign with God, he praises the congregates how together and united they are, how it pleases God to see a united people, Zimbabwe is a God fearing country: At the same breath he talks about elections that should be conducted in a peaceful manner, we need peace ahead of elections, he said. "If you have not registered, please go and register to vote. Was that vote- or election massage called-for in an Easter worshipping gathering? Was that not abuse of power he has over the people?

What was even devastating in that church conference in Bikita is the moral message Mnangagwa gave to the congregants. Talking about good morals, Mnangagwa has 41 children; we are told by his loving enemy Jonathan Moyo. What moral high ground did he assume to teach morals to church congregants who could be holding family values higher that Mnangagwa with his 41 children, some of which were recognised in his internet site: he acknowledged only nine out of 41 children! There we go: it is like Nomazulu That attacking a pregnant girl who will get her baby out of wedlock. Did Nomazulu not get a child out of wedlock; father absconded in the same way the pregnant girl was left to dry by the man who gave her baby?

Religion is the opium of the people said, Karl Marx. It is inconceivable to hear Bishop Nehemiah Mutendi in the Easter gathering in Bikita uttering absolute nonsense. His thanking speech to the President was: "since political leaders come from God, it was pertinent to invite the President to come and bless the Easter Zion Christian Church on the special occasion to pray together with leaders" "We do not want to pray for leaders but we want to pray for you" The good question is, did God really send Mnangagwa to rule over us? What is God that who gives his child a scorpion when the child prayed for a sweet? Did God give us an earthly leader who the message is selective forgiveness? Mnangagwa is a pure son of Zanu PF who will signal left but he will be turning right. Mnangagwa talks positive values but when he acts, he kills his enemies and is left scot-free, he eliminates those who are not on his side; Pasi ne mhanduuuuu! Why did he not tell his the congregants that as from the Saturday of 31st Match onwards he will never utter hate speeches: pasi nemhanduuuuu! That means kill the enemy. Why did Mnangagwa on that blessed Saturday take the opportunity to denounce hate speeches he sprays at his will to the gullible gatherings of Zanu PF supporters?

Why do church leaders utter words out of context of the teachings of the bible they wholly respect? Is it fear in them to talk to please earthly leaders? How does God in Heaven feel if he is misrepresented and misquoted by those who purport to have been chosen by God to represent them here on Earth: a whole Bishop? Is this Bishop talking falsehood to please the earthly God: Mnangagwa? God never sent Mnangagwa to rule us by any account, this is a blank lie. God could never have given us Mnangagwa having suffered from Mugabe's rule for 37 years. It is this very religion that reduces people's immediate suffering and provides them with pleasant illusions, but it also reduces their energy and willingness to fight oppression in their midst: says Karl Marx. It is Mnangagwa who knew what he was doing that Easter Saturday: Karl Marx's words are relevant to this day.

We respect church leaders who will defend the truth all the time. We respect leaders who truthfully tell God's message undiluted by earthly trappings of associating with earthly rulers. Church leaders must be authentic and not hero-worshippers of earthly rulers. We have examples of the Catholic Church in Rhodesia that stood with the suffering of the colonised peoples until independence. It is the Catholic Church again that stood with the masses that were facing decimation from the new Zanu PF dispensation in the early 1980s. We are indeed proud of the work of the Catholic Church that documented the atrocities meted by the North Korean trained Fifth Brigade: this is a document that will be a reference point in the dark history of Zimbabwe. The Catholic Church remains the shining example of fearless service to oppressed peoples of many nations.