THE ROOTS OF CORRUPTION

THE ROOTS OF CORRUPTION It is generally known that about one third of the national budget is eaten up by graft and corruption, and that does not even include the local budgets of LGUs. What are the causes of graft and corruption and how do we prevent it? Or probably just reduce it if we could? It seems that we have already passed all the laws and have already created all the government agencies that we could, to prevent or reduce graft and corruption, but it persists, and has become so pervasive that it now affects every aspect of our life. For example, it is graft and corruption that is the cause of our very high poverty rate. I always say that corruption is the cause of graft, but what is the cause of corruption? Without any doubt, I say that the cause of corruption is sin, or the propensity to commit sin, because corruption is simply just stealing, and stealing is a sin. But who are the thieves? Are they not the civil servants who probably belong to a church? And who are supposedly opposed to sin? I think that the real problem here is that these “church goers” have created a wall between their “faith”, and their thievery. This wall allows them to dichotomize what they do inside their churches and inside their public offices, thinking perhaps that these two worlds are not connected, thinking as well that stealing is not a sin, and that they could get away with it. The only way that they could save their souls is to break down these walls and ask forgiveness from God. IKE SENERES/04-23-24