HOLY COWS

By Chemochek Enock

Authority comes from God, so said my Sunday school teacher. And I don’t doubt that one bit. Only God knows precisely why he put those in authority there, and that’s why he picked people from all walks of life, people with different ideologies and leadership skills to lead his people. David was a mere young shepherd whom God entrusted with the leadership of his people. Solomon was the son of a king whom God entrusted with leadership too. God also gave the wicked an opportunity to rule. Look at people like Adolf Hitler and Nero, for example. These leaders were the worst of their times, they took away their subjects’ lives mercilessly.


I take a look at the leaders we have now and wonder why God would put such beasts to rule over people. They are wolves in sheep's skin, but with long tails! They think we are too silly to differentiate between a lamb’s tail and that of a wolf. God have mercy on them. Woe unto the flock that is looked after by a bunch of hungry wolves. With their shallow thinking they rule over their areas of jurisdiction with iron rods in the name of bringing change. Then I wonder, how can a monkey brag about instilling knowledge to a philosopher? That has not happened and never will.

The people I am talking about are the ones around us, the ones we interact with on a daily basis. These people have caused us much agony and made life quite unbearable. They oppress those under them because they know very well that the oppressed wouldn’t dare open their beaks out of fear and the few who open up are voiceless. The whistle blowers who dare talk are silenced in the most inhumane way! It is even quite ironical that the resources of the voiceless, the hard-earned coins of ‘sufferers’ are what keep these beasts growing fatter by the day.

A look at these people who have been on these ‘rotating chairs’ confirms that power corrupts a sane person’s morality and thinking. It narrows their capacity to think and come up with ideas such that their mindsets don’t go beyond themselves but rather revolves around the ‘me’, ‘myself’ and ‘I’. It is, maybe, this kind of thinking that has led to the fleecing of a common person like me and you.

My questions are: Why are these people that way? Why do people suddenly change when they get those big seats? Why would they be happy when someone is suffering? Why do they promise heaven but end up delivering hell? Why don’t people question their leadership? Maybe I have part of the answer to the last question. It is because they are untouchable, the holy type that has been set aside for ‘religious’ purposes. To call them holy cows is an understatement; I just lacked the right term for them.