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Are most Politics/Religions corrupt?

simplex5 2012/07/17 12:01:20
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We are in a state around the world going to Hell... and who is holding your hand basket.....Bewteen jails,laws,taxes and now food sources going bad. where does that lead you too? I am afraid for the next generations to come...Where technology is taking them only God knows...
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  • gocar 2012/07/19 22:15:04
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    gocar
    Many politicians start out clean but when you swim in a sewer you stink. Same with religious institutions. they have become a good business for the motivational speaker crowd.
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  • ajracestables1 2012/07/19 01:40:23
  • Andrew 2012/07/18 22:25:33
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    Andrew
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    I think it's greed that gets to most religions and political groups in my opinion.
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  • Dave Andrew 2012/07/19 20:24:04
    Dave
    I've been saying the same thing for years.
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  • Andrew Dave 2012/07/19 23:00:50
    Andrew
    Nice to know.
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  • TerryAgee 2012/07/18 16:44:59
    Greedy
    TerryAgee
    Both try to change the rules to their advantage. Yay or nay?
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  • Swampdog 2012/07/18 12:51:23
    Undecided
    Swampdog
    Ask the Muslimes, their religion is their politics!
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  • Raphy 2012/07/18 05:53:13
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    I'm a Christian and I think most are. Especially when politician say something about his Christian values, vote for me. He is lying..........
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  • Flamingolady 2012/07/18 03:23:55
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    Flamingolady
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    Both are human institutions, and since human beings are flawed and guilty of sin, then the two institutions are fallible in the same way as humans are.
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  • artistheweapon 2012/07/18 00:28:56
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    artistheweapon
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    to some extent, and for some people, absolutely
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  • Elz 2012/07/17 23:02:00
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    Elz
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    there shouldve been just a yes or no option. and yes i do think politics are corrupt.
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  • Margaret Jacobson 2012/07/17 21:18:06
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    Margaret Jacobson
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    RELIGIONS ARE CORRUPT (THINK CATHOLIC CHURCH & ALL OTHERS) think about the "crimes that go unreported", think about all the mkoney they collect and "INVEST" in real estate, bonds, cars, homes in the name of GOD !1 Think of all the "do gooder" organizations that people donate their property tohelp them do "good things by selling it for a good cause". But the organization "keeps it" for the" LEADERS" use for vacatations !! THINK about our "world leaders" that promise to do well by us, but secretly "sell us out" by sending our jobs overseas or just be generally "GREEDY" by overtaxing us to death !! By the way I think that "estate taxes are a DEATH TAX !! The rich somehow get around this one !!
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  • skroehr 2012/07/17 20:44:49
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    skroehr
    Kind of an unanswerable question. People are flawed. We all have the capacity to do good and bad, and most of us exhibit a tendency to favor one or the other to some extent. All institutions are made up of people who are flawed. That doesn't mean that the premise or the intent of the institution is flawed. For instance, the perfect political institution on earth is the United States in it's pure constitutional form. We have had the largest degree of problems in the in politics the farther we get FROM the original principles. Not the more we FOLLOW the original principles, which are nearly perfect politically. We flawed PEOPLE keep straying from the plan. The foundations of the Church, (Jesus Christ) are perfect. We get ourselves in deeper and deeper trouble the more our culture detaches itself FROM the Christian ideal. So it is not the institution of the Church which is flawed, but our straying from her that brings problems. The institution is filled with people, and people are flawed.

    Anyway...... What institution can hold up to it's own principles at all times? Even when those principles are perfect? None. What is the answer to this? On at least the face of it, it seems we should each strive to be as obedient as possible to American constitutionalism in o...
    Kind of an unanswerable question. People are flawed. We all have the capacity to do good and bad, and most of us exhibit a tendency to favor one or the other to some extent. All institutions are made up of people who are flawed. That doesn't mean that the premise or the intent of the institution is flawed. For instance, the perfect political institution on earth is the United States in it's pure constitutional form. We have had the largest degree of problems in the in politics the farther we get FROM the original principles. Not the more we FOLLOW the original principles, which are nearly perfect politically. We flawed PEOPLE keep straying from the plan. The foundations of the Church, (Jesus Christ) are perfect. We get ourselves in deeper and deeper trouble the more our culture detaches itself FROM the Christian ideal. So it is not the institution of the Church which is flawed, but our straying from her that brings problems. The institution is filled with people, and people are flawed.

    Anyway...... What institution can hold up to it's own principles at all times? Even when those principles are perfect? None. What is the answer to this? On at least the face of it, it seems we should each strive to be as obedient as possible to American constitutionalism in order to get closer to political perfection. It seems we should strive to live more closely to the principles of the Gospels for the perfect religious life. Will we? Or will we keep eschewing the beauty and perfection of orthodoxy in favor of progressive modernity, thereby going farther and farther from the known perfections inherent in the foundations of the institutions, while putting more and more stock in the imperfect people who inhabit them?
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  • DANNY59 2012/07/17 19:34:28
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    DANNY59
    It sure seems that way, but I'm not sure all religions are corrupt, just misguided. Politics are based around lies, starting from all the false promises they make during their campaigns. The promises they make might work if they actually had as much power as they would like you to believe they have. All decisions have to go through so many channels before something actually happens. I think it all comes down to money, that's why I think it's so corrupt. It's supposed to be what's good for our country and the people who live here. It all works out in the end. This stuff has been going on since man set foot on this planet, and it will keep going on after you leave it.
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  • poet4justice 2012/07/17 19:17:49
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    poet4justice
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    because we ARE NOT GOD AND IS A HUMAN THING to be political corrupt
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  • gaylehelen 2012/07/17 18:27:32
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    gaylehelen
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    50/50.
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  • Stan Kapusta 2012/07/17 17:36:06
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    Stan Kapusta
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    When the punishment for doing wrong is removed, power corrupts all.
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  • Tom 2012/07/17 16:53:34
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    Tom
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    As long as there is power to be had and the humans are involved there will be some level of corruption. And no where is there more power than Politics or Religion.
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  • POWERSHAKER 2012/07/17 16:20:14
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    POWERSHAKER
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    You know the answer to that. Politics are dirty, and so are most of the world's religions.
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  • merlinskiss 2012/07/17 15:58:53
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    merlinskiss
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    No good answer here... Politics and religions are all corrupt. Follow the money and control...
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  • bob h. 2012/07/17 15:49:37
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    bob h.
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    "Power breeds corruption, absolute power, absolute corruption".
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  • Swampdog bob h. 2012/07/18 12:54:02
    Swampdog
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    New take on an old phrase, I like it.
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  • MandaLynne 2012/07/17 15:42:34
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    MandaLynne
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    People are corrupt, not politics and religion.
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  • waterlady 2012/07/17 14:53:56
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    waterlady
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    They both are. It is about greed and control of people.
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  • Andy 2012/07/17 14:47:52
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    Andy
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    As a whole...NO. There are individuals that are greedy and corrupt...which does not make the group greedy or corrupt... but, many times they pay the price for the actions of a few
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  • jackolantyrn356 2012/07/17 13:54:49
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    jackolantyrn356
    IF YOUR RELIGION IS BIBLE CENTERED THERE IS A LOT LESS OF THE CORRUPTION
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  • Swampdog jackola... 2012/07/18 12:54:58
    Swampdog
    Maybe Christ centered?
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  • bob h. jackola... 2012/08/11 01:34:29
    bob h.
    And if you read history, you can see that's not true.
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  • bob h. jackola... 2012/11/12 20:31:15
    bob h.
    The Bible written by 4 guys who weren't there? What could possibly go wrong?
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  • Wretha S 2012/07/17 13:02:58
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    Wretha S
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    It's MAN that is corrupt.

    Wretha
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  • realist 2012/07/17 12:49:34
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    realist
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    I don't think either are corrupt.

    Individuals are corrupt.

    Why is it so hard for some people to grasp that concept?
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  • bob h. realist 2012/08/11 01:35:16
    bob h.
    Most people are not politicians.
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  • realist bob h. 2012/08/13 01:46:18
    realist
    Corruption can exist outside of religion and politics mate
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  • bob h. realist 2012/08/15 03:31:37
    bob h.
    But when they get together, it's a sure thing.
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  • realist bob h. 2012/11/12 01:49:18
    realist
    Because of the number of individuals in a religion or political system is always large; the opportunity for corruption is heightened when they merge. But always derived back to the individual. The only way to prevent corruption is to never have a system, and it doesn't take a genius to know we are much better off today because of those systems despite the corruption which has existed in politics and religion caused by the individual.
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  • bob h. realist 2012/11/12 20:33:17
    bob h.
    When an individual joins a group, he no longer thinks as an individual. Group think is the enemy.
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  • realist bob h. 2012/11/12 21:18:01
    realist
    That is an excuse used by the weak, the only time group mentality like that occurs is when the individual is peer pressured into having his free will removed. And peer pressure is always due to individuals.
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  • bob h. realist 2012/11/12 22:44:57 (edited)
    bob h.
    Then explain the rabid righties on here. They ARE the Borg.
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  • realist bob h. 2012/11/12 22:51:46
    realist
    Extremist individuals exist in all ideologies, you say righties, they say lefties, and everyone else just focuses on debating important factors :)
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  • bob h. realist 2012/11/12 23:02:06
    bob h.
    Issues? New here?
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