The Content of World Religions as Source of Counteracting to Corruption Phenomena (who Else Would be involved in the Fight against Corruption?)

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the International Holiday — the Day of Fight against Corruption on 9 December. The author of the material considers the vital issues of this so far unsuccessful struggle or ineffective counteraction to corruption phenomena that are revealed in various areas of life and not only our society. The author tries to find out how corruption is treated in the views of the main world religions — Christianity (partially), Islam and national religion — Judaism. The article gives historical reminiscences and authorial comments on the text fragments of the main written sources of these religions. Judgments about the origins, roots and main causes, of course, of the immoral, harmful and devastating phenomenon of corruption, are deeply rooted in the national economies of many developed and most developing countries on the planet. At the end of the article, the author expresses his dissenting opinion on measures to combat corruption in the form of three independent conclusions. But the main thing that the author tries to express in relation to the accumulated domestic experience of fighting corruption is instead of solving a specific problem, it is being reformulated.

Keywords

• corruption
• bribery
• embezzlement of budgetary funds
• money laundering
• world religions
• apostles
• prophets
• saints
• shepherds
• corruptionism
• confessions