Thank God, the mpiandry chased away the devoly yesterday during a strange evangelical folklore event in a secular republic. We hope this time will be the right one, as we've already seen them chase demons in Mahazoarivo in 2002, in Ambohitsorohitra in 2009, in Iavoloha in 2025. After all this time watching the mpiandry agitate in this manner, the defects and defective members of the political class are still around. Without wisdom, we must have the courage to meditate on Einstein's words: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result." Even without resorting to Marxist ideology, we know that religion is the opium of the people. It allows them to forget their daily difficulties, hoping for better days in a possible heavenly paradise. The fatalism this generates is quite useful to leaders, as it promotes calm amid the storm. Let us also recall that a saying from our own land teaches that some pray on Sunday and are chicken thieves on Monday. Wisdom would therefore suggest maintaining a certain distrust of modern-day Pharisees who display their religiosity as a totem of immunity, even impunity. Religion serves as a showcase for public figures, but what lies behind is not always shining. We hope therefore for all the show-offs of yesterday on May 13th square that we can give them the benefit of the doubt. This event recalled the style of forongony and their religious theatrics under Rajoelina: religious demonstrations at Barea stadium; the deluded Rija Rasolondraibe who claimed God had already spoken to the former DJ before entrusting him with Madagascar's destiny; the whimsical Hery Rasoamaromaka who went to cry on the robe of the President of the FJKM Protestant Church to complain about a sermon by his deputy; Christine Razanamahasoa's prayer sessions at the Justice Ministry or National Assembly; Lalatiana Rakotondrazafy (organizer of weekly prayer cells at Andohalo) filming herself singing (off-key) "tsy izay lazain'ny olona Jesosy" at an evangelical concert; and even Rajoelina's project for a Palace of Praise that he intended to build with the highest steeple in the Indian Ocean. It seems even his sister and mother were heavily involved in sects. And yet... all these religious gesticulations by Rajoelina and his associates did not prevent mpiandry from supporting the 2009 coup. It did not prevent Rajoelina and his ruling clan from aligning scandals of corruption, from Mamy Ravatomanga to Herilaza Imbiky, through the flat-screen affair or the arrest of Romy Voos. It did not prevent stories of dissolute morals involving power hierarchs. It did not prevent hundreds of billions of ariary and 400 vehicles from disappearing, according to the Court of Accounts report. Etc. The habit does not make the monk. Regarding the piety of Malagasy politicians, experience is worth science. The past illuminates the present and anticipates the future. Mixing politics and religion is neither healthy, nor reasonable, and even less constitutionally acceptable. What Madagascar needs is not an army of bigots and prayer sessions, but honest judges, uncorrupted civil servants, leaders conscious of the sacred nature of their function, authorities and citizens committed to the rule of law, businesses that pay their taxes, ministers who truly work for the well-being of their fellow citizens, etc. Can religion help achieve these objectives? Theoretically, the answer is yes. But when we look at the number of churches, sects, pastors of this and reverends or bishops of that over decades, we must acknowledge that it has done nothing to improve the country's overall situation. These nonsenses therefore serve little purpose, except to help Malagasy people endure the incompetence and lack of integrity of leaders with stoicism, and to benefit sect pastors with substantial tithes. But until proven otherwise, we have not yet seen concrete results on the country's life, whether in terms of GDP level, Corruption Perception Index, or civic and citizen values in the population. We even have the impression that indicators worsen as politicians push their flirtation with religion. Enough to wonder if, in his systematically disappointed hopes, the vahoaka will be reduced to becoming a mpiandry an'i Paoly? The Rwandan experience of prohibiting exercise to pastors without theological training should inspire us. Faith is a good thing, religion too. But they must not be instrumentalized for political purposes, or serve as a pretext.