This is a sheer advent for the opposition, during Lent: at the Sunday protest against propaganda, Katalin Lukácsi (in front of a sufficiently obscene sign) modestly and with noble simplicity presented Péter Márki-Zay with the first four and a half verses of the 53rd chapter of Isaiah's book.

"He grew up before us like a shoot and like a root out of thirsty ground. It was neither beautiful nor elegant, as we have seen, it was not attractive in appearance. He was despised, last among men, a man of pain, who knew what suffering is", sat more - the Catholic religious teacher recited the poignant Good Friday reading on stage, and then interpreted what he heard in a short sermon: "The next speaker is no more frail than any of us , yet all the anger and hatred and lies of the power fall on him because he is afraid [that is, the power], afraid of you. I would like to ask you to give him a round of applause to thank him for putting up with so much hatred for you: Péter Márki-Zay."

In such cases, of course, the standard protest usually comes that "the lackey propagandist is twisting my word! no one claimed that the prime minister candidate was a messiah! that Jesus Christ is divided!", and he really didn't say it, but let's imagine Philip Rákay, say, on March 15, inviting Viktor Orbán to the stage with such a ring. It is one thing that the opposition media would shout as one man that this is pure Rákosi 2.0, even a suffocating mixture of personality cult and clericalism - but I would reluctantly agree with the protesters myself.

On the other hand, Katalin Lukácsi's performance is not praised at all by the independent and objective press;

i.e. either he doesn't see anything objectionable in it, or he considers it appropriate to keep silent from the atheist voters that MZP is a sect leader with a messiah complex, and his head of religious affairs is his prophet, elect them if you have the stomach for it.

Of course, the matter is not without precedent, as the "Master" from Hódmezővásárhely has already explained several times that his political involvement is almost a religious experience, for example his journalist followed him with all his heart (it is not known whether St. Peter ever dictated to Jesus Christ what questions he could answer, but of course it could be that it is, it's just not written down by chance), and his purpose is to free the country from evil (i.e. he is no longer simply the Messiah, but also God the Father). But as we know, he rambles when he's tired, so you don't have to take him seriously -

but now, after careful preparation, his ecclesiastical affairs representative, a graduate religious teacher, declared about him that his wounds will bring us healing.

And when MZP took the stage, he didn't start by freely pointing out that we shouldn't exaggerate, especially at an anti-propaganda demonstration, especially during Lent as a Catholic - no, he thanked his fellow politicians in front of him for practically saying everything they needed to.

However, in the current world political situation, what a politician says with his mouth in front of an audience is not negligible. However, the mentioned Old Testament quote is confusing for an atheist, embarrassing for an enlightened agnostic, and for believing Christians it is a rare and disgusting blasphemy. At an opposition meeting, this is not necessarily a drama, the O1G-supporting sections of the people will vote for anyone who is not Fidesz, however, I would not like to test how much such a communicator burns the country on the international stage. At least Biden has the bonus of being old and poor.

As for the analogy itself, it's a shame that we didn't get examples of the claim that "all the anger and hatred and lies" of the government are directed at Péter Márki-Zay. In this way, we can only wonder what we should be thinking about.

Would it be hate speech that Viktor Orbán didn't even mention MZP's name at the annual evaluation?

Or it would be character assassination if the ruling party media quotes MZP's statements one by one, without adding footnotes to each letter, pointing out that "hoho, it might actually be that he didn't mean it like that at all, he just said it like that, so let's wait and see tomorrow's hermeneutic briefing”? Or would the word connection "Mini Feri" be unbearable for someone who thinks that Orbán=Putin+Hitler+Stalin+Rákosi and his voting base is a stupid brainwashed population? If I were to write now that MZP also lied on Sunday night, when it claimed (apparently referring to a NATO plane not flying from Hungary) that Viktor Orbán was delivering weapons to Ukraine, would that be considered simple hatred on my part, or straight up crucifixion of an innocent messiah?

"You have to team up with the devil too. (…) We will indeed team up with the devil, calm down," emphasized Péter Márki-Zay recently when asked whether it was appropriate to accept money from László Bige in order to gain power.

When Satan offered Jesus Christ to help him gain power with his wealth, he consistently and categorically rejected the tempter - Katalin Lukácsi could hear in the Gospel just this Sunday. It really could have been at least so tasteful that the arch-Catholic didn't try to tell us that Márki-Zay is the savior, fresh from the mass.

Francesca Rivafinoli / vasarnap.hu

Featured image: MTI / Szilárd Koszticsák