–– Lennox Kalifungwa

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Children of Darwin

The world insists that the goal of life is to survive, with extra credit rendered to those who can do so in the most convenient way. Risk is treated as a fool’s game; the trade of those whose aspirations are shallow and reckless.

Darwin’s anthropology outlived his final recantations. His assertion that life is about survival has become the social lingua franca, the agreed-upon ideal that all men must live by.

As a high priest of the secular order, Darwin composed a liturgy that sought to replace bread and drink with plastic meals and bubble wrap, ever ready to survive the coming apocalypse. The idea that a King would lay His life down and then spread a table for feasting runs contrary to the notion that life is to be idolised and food treated as mere fuel.

In Darwin’s thinking, a Father could not possibly send His Son to die. A Divine Being could not possibly allow Himself to be beaten and bruised by mortal men. Apostles of a great religion could not possibly be martyred en masse.

The folly of those who live by the religious creed of Christianity would be deemed foolish and irrational. Why willingly die by fatal flames to translate a Book of myths into the English tongue? Why suffer ruin for speaking the truth when a lie would guarantee seeing yet another day? For there is no God, and fear must be man’s motivation and the substance of his consciousness.