It’s Easter Sunday in 2026; a holiday the diverse branches and twigs of Christianity (there are so many of them) can agree on given that it’s based on the Hebrew version of the lunar calendar rather than on the calendars established by Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory XIII.  It’s a strange holiday this year, a year that is a sort of culmination in a cycle of genocide, ethnic cleansing and orchestrated Islamophobia that has disclosed that international law and human rights have always been illusions, perhaps more accurately delusions, and that the purported hopes of a certain Hebrew carpenter and civic leader from Palestine for equity and decency have, for two millennia, been used as a diversion to facilitate control of humanity by the worst among us.  War in the name of peace, hatred and polarization in the name of love and inequity in the name of equity and justice. 

My Christian friends, or at least many of them, too many, shrug their shoulders at the foregoing and note that humans are imperfect.  Then, in too many cases, they enthusiastically support obvious evil cleverly disguised as patriotism. 

I am not a believer in the divinity of Yešu the Nazarene but I am a believer in his message of social justice and his golden rule and so, every holiday dedicated to him is for me, a day of shame. 

I wonder if it will ever be any different.
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© Guillermo Calvo Mahé; Manizales, 2026; all rights reserved.  Please feel free to share with appropriate attribution.

Guillermo (“Bill”) Calvo Mahé (a sometime poet and aspiring empirical philosopher) is a writer, political commentator and academic currently residing in the Republic of Colombia (although he has primarily lived in the United States of America of which he is also a citizen). Until 2017 he chaired the political science, government and international relations programs at the Universidad Autónoma de Manizales. Previously, he chaired the social studies and foreign language departments at the Eastern Military Academy in Huntington, New York. He is currently the publisher of the Inannite Review available at Substack.com; an intermittent commentator on radio and television; and, an occasional contributor to diverse periodicals and publications. He has academic degrees in political science (BA, The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina), law (JD, St. John’s University, School of Law), international legal studies (LL.M, the Graduate Division of the New York University School of Law) and translation and linguistic studies (GCTS, the University of Florida’s Center for Latin American Studies). However, he is also fascinated by mythology, religion, physics, astronomy and mathematics, especially with matters related to quanta, cosmology and cosmogony. He can be contacted at guillermo.calvo.mahe@gmail.com and much of his writing is available through his blog at https://guillermocalvo.com/.