Easter tidings. Just saying …

In the Christian faith Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus and the Almighty’s victory over sin and death and symbolises the saving of souls.

It can be said God made us in his own image of perfection that  gave us freedom of choice, and thus the freedom to make the wrong choices which He never does.

Adam and Eve chose to eat the forbidden fruit at the behest of the serpent – and it’s been downhill for humankind ever since.

God sent Satan looking like a snake/ To Adam and Eve in their garden/Through him they took the forbidden fruit/ And God gave them no pardon/Since then, most men dislike snakes/And snakes hate most men too/ But if you don’t trouble them/They won’t trouble you.

This sign in a local junior school classroom is way out of date in this crazy, and getting crazier, world.

The snakes have taken over.

For example, snakes in America have cancelled $2 billion in annual federal funding  for Harvard University, Barack Obama’s alma mater, on grounds it fostered anti-semitism by allowing pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

Apparently protesting against Israeli genocide in Gaza is anti-semite, or the hatred of Jews settled in the Holy Land.

The forgotten civil war in Sudan has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions over the past two years in what has become the worst current humanitarian crisis.

The snakes on either side of the battle lines don’t care whether it’s Muslims in the north or Christians in the south who are dying amidst Gaza-like destruction of cities, towns and villages.

Snakes are in charge all over the globe, poisoning all those who don’t agree with them. The continent of Africa is no exception. Repression is at its height, justice and freedoms are denied.

In Zimbabwe the snakes are insatiable, getting fatter by the day as they steal the living daylights out of life’s God-given bounties. It’s plain to see.

Here Easter clashes with the 45th anniversary of freedom from colonial rule.

“My parents weren’t free and I am not free,” says a 35-year-old of the country’s so-called “Born Free” generation, now often known as the “Born To Suffer” generation.

Happy Easter!