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THE MORAL BURDEN OF CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIANITY
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Certainly, the contemporary Holy Christianity, like @ the ancient times, is horribly beset with some natural & artificial MORAL BURDEN @ higher order. There is a horrible level of ignorance or @ least an apparent manifestation of ignorance exhibited by the majority of people, even those who profess to be Children of God. Evidently, the majority of the people are living in the bondage of SIN & enjoying the life of pleasure in SIN - probably out of ignorance. Many so-called Ministers of God have forsaken the purpose of their Calling to Service & have diverted to the use of fake powers in order to make quick money & earthly riches. Obviously, Satan's most diabolically effective weapons have continued to be the same old reliable ones he had ever used since the days of Judas Iscariot - destroy from within, cause dissension & doubt, stir one another, destroy one another, destroy the credibility of the leadership, accuse the Brethren, divide & conquer.

Right from the beginning of human existence, Satan has ever applied the worst weapons of destruction of the Spiritual Life of man through SIN. Ever since man has been in the horrible bondage of this spiritual slavery. Worst of all, man has been in total ignorance of the knowledge of the operations of SIN in his life & he does virtually nothing to arrest the ugly disposition or attempt to conquer SIN - his masterful enemy! Therefore, I feel it is high time we began reading the hand-writing on the wall. It is high time we realized the need to awake from sleep & challenge the masterful enemy with an awful lot, lest our unholy display of attitudes of indifference spell calamity for us. God forbid!


DILAPIDATION IN THE MODERN ETHICAL STANDARD:
 It is absolutely sad & disappointing to observe that stories of bad news revealing all sorts of wickedness or evil practices such as robberies of a higher order, bribery & corruption, etc. are no longer news in our modern societies & in the world @ large. The reason is that the nations have sunk into untold gravity of evil & such that our National Dailies & TV Broadcasts are full of such unwelcome & appalling news. No doubt, our National Ethical Standard has dilapidated @ its worst capacity & virtually all nations, say, Nigeria is frowning & crying because of this horrible eyesore: mass killing of innocent souls, kidnapping, armed robbery & stealing by tricks, otherwise called "419" in Nigeria - to mention but a few. The average businessman in the Nigeria Society, for example, no longer pays any regard to Professional Ethics guiding business practice.

In fact, our National Ethics which primarily deals with the generality of the people's behavioural patterns towards their fellow citizens, the Government & the Constitution of the land has equally sunk into unimaginable jeopardy. In Nigeria, for instance, The Sections 22 & 23 of the 1979 & 1999 Constitution of Nigeria respectively provided the nation's National Ethics, which essentially embodies Discipline, Integrity, Dignity of Labour & Social Justice as well as Patriotism, Religious Tolerance, Self-discipline & Self-reliance.

 "Ethics is a Branch of the Study which investigated the Laws of Morality & formulates RULES of CONDUCT. It deals with the rightness or wrongness of man's conduct & the ideals towards which man is working" (Appadorai, 1975).

CORRUPTION: A CAUSE OF DILAPIDATION IN THE MODERN SOCIETAL MORAL STANDARD.
Permit me to solicit your indulgence to capsulate the components of bastardized Ethics into Corruption. The Chambers Dictionary provides a striking definition of Corruption in the following terms: putrid, depraved, defiled, not genuine, much vitiated or debased, briber, dishonest or venal. Edward Libbon, an English historian, in his book, "The Decline & Fall Of The Roman Empire", wrote: "Corruption is the most infallible symptom of Constitutional Liberty". Isn't this definition fitting enough? Thus, Corruption can be seen as anything or an act that serves to lower the Moral Standard of a given society.


CORRUPTION AS EVIDENCED IN OUR SOCIAL AND CULTURAL SETTINGS
 Certainly, our traditional value frowns on Corruption. Both the Holy Christianity & Judaism, as well as the Islamic Religion & the Native Religions, say: African Traditional Religion, all preach & teach against Corruption. Some are quoted as saying during their days in the nineteen sixties, there was nothing called "10 percent", in Nigeria, contrary to the current ugly development. He added that it was the Nigeria Military that brought it & shamefully institutionalized it as an indispensable condition for obtaining Contracts in Nigeria. Surely, this is one of the many evil results of long years of Nigeria Military Misrule. A certain popular Nigerian Commentator, speaking on the issue of Corruption said:

  • "The truth is that it is notorious facts that before the advent of the British Rule in Nigeria & until very recently, Crimes & Corruption were very much detested, violence & other wrongs were rare, Codes of Conducts were religiously obeyed. The citizens were hemmed in @ every turn by the established Rules of Conduct & Customs, so much so that the citizens were incapable of departing from their dictates or even contemplate conducts inconsistent with them. The Rule was that whatever was established & whatever that has always been done should be done. What operated effectively as a deterrent against evil-doing was not the prison yard created by the British Systems & Rule but the powerful sanctions of Morality & Public Opinion ". 
  • According to one revered Gentleman: " One permanent damage done to our System is the destruction of Moral Sanctions which was one main reason why the Rules of Conduct were not obeyed strictly & religiously".
  • Indeed, Corruption has eaten deep into the fabric of our modern Societies. It has become a Cancer on the body. The octopus-like Cankerworm called Corruption has spread its captivating tentacles over the national Societies of the World. It's high time we began battling seriously against this worldwide contemporary scourge. 
It's unfortunate that Corruption walks on four legs in Nigeria. The past index on Corruption compiled by the International Transparency & Accountability Watch-dog, Transparency International (TI), a Non-Governmental Organization based in the United States, has Nigeria in the unenviable position of the most corrupt nation in the World - even under erstwhile President Olusegun Obasanjo as noted by Dr. Anale, a Philosophy teacher @ the University of Lagos. Frankly speaking, this is a sad & shameful development in a famous country of a one-time acclaimed "giant of Africa", a British political contraption of the Biblical "north country" of northern cabals called Nigeria.


THE FORMS OF OUR NATIONAL CORRUPTION PRACTICES
 Corruption practices take various FORMS, which are identifiable in the World in general & Nigeria, in particular. First & foremost, non-compliance to laid down Rules & Principles guiding performance in various activities in a given society amounts to INDISCIPLINE. Indiscipline manifests as Bribery & Corruption, Get-rich-quick Syndrome, Examination Malpractices & obtaining by False Pretences. Indiscipline, which is the result of the Dilapidation Of Ethical Standard, goes beyond giving & receiving a bribe.

In the words of Dr. Ako Emma (2006) of blessed memory: "It encompasses any use of power by anybody for capricious or arbitrary use or any other purpose foreign to which it is succumbing to induce influence, yielding to intimidation from superior body. It includes corruptly influencing any constituted authority. It includes putting an incompetent person over a competent person or setting up a Mock Interview or Selection Process when the minds of the members of the Selection Panel have been made up. Corruption in a University includes allowing a Vice-Chancellor, Pro-Chancellor, Registrar, Dean or any other Officers to have discretionary list wherein children or wards of their friends & associates could secure an admission when they have indeed failed the JAMB examination or scored below the cut- off marks fixed for their departments. It includes a Supervisor or an Invigilator taking money from a student to allow another person to write an examination for the student or allowing the student to run away with question papers only to come back & submit their answer sheets....it includes a lot more"!

Similarly, in The Civil Service', it includes deliberately using Decree 17 of 1984 (Nigeria) to witch-hunt people with a view to laying them off when the fact on the ground does not justify such action.

At 'The Customs', it includes allowing importers to pay more or less than the amount stipulated by Law or Regulation as import duties. It includes deliberate & unconscionable delay of papers to induce an offer of money.

At 'The Point Of Entry Into The Country", it includes not conducting proper checks in the luggage of people @ the air @ sea ports.

In 'The Realm Of Awards Of Building Contracts", a deliberate decision by the Site Engineer to allow lower standards or departure from specification amounts to Corruption.

In 'The Banking Sector", refusal or neglect to pay due attention to Banking Laws, Regulations & Directives issued by the Central Bank & other Regulatory Bodies, like allowing unsecured or inappropriately secured Lending, is Indiscipline.
Indiscipline is in every sphere & includes virtually any decision to deviate from agreed & or stimulated standards with or without a demand for pecuniary, proprietary, or filial advantages. It is much in our Politics & Police as it is in our economic & sporting lives & judiciary.

 One American Gentleman by name, Prof. Richard Joseph visited Nigeria some years ago to give a Lecture. He spoke on "Prebendalism": that is "bending of rules" would cripple a society - any society for that matter. This Gentleman who once had hope that by the end of the last decade Nigeria would have become a World Power, pointed out that "Prebendalism" was - & - still is - the bane of the Nigeria Society & her development.

No doubt, every Nigerian & every other person in the nations would agree to the assertion that Corruption is pandemic & endemic in every nation of the World & that it needs to be curbed. In Nigeria, for instance, the Government has done the much it could to check this satanic phenomenon that enslaved & bedeviled Nigerians & the Nations. All the varied remedial steps taken by the Government have not yielded the expected results.

I'm optimistic that we can still reverse the negativity of Corruption. Things have not fully fallen apart as Professor Achebe suggests. The "Panacea To The Nigeria Situation On Corruption Is Spiritual Therapy Or Christian Inoculation".

In 2 Chronicles Chapter 7 verse 14 the Holy Bible says:
" If my people, who are called by my Name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my Face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven and will forgive their SINS, and will heal their land (AKJV).

  • If these words were but the mere opinions of men, we might disregard them; but since they are the Words of The Most High God, they must & will be fulfilled to the very letter (Mark 13: 31). 
  • Again in Matthew Chapter 11 verse 28, the Holy Bible says:  "Come unto me, all ye that labour & are heavy laden & I will give you rest" (AKJV). 
  • Let us examine briefly those two verses of Scripture in relation to our endeavour to sanitizing ourselves & the nation(s) & finally curb Corruption.
The first thing is for us to humble ourselves before God in the true confession of our SINS as members of "The Royal Family Of Almighty God" or "The Church Of God". God knows that we are heavy laden with Corruption, miss-devotion, lack of Self-control, insincerity, wickedness & so on. When we purge ourselves of these, God promises that He will forgive us, heal our land & He will give us REST (His Holy Sabbath). 
Amen. Alleluia!!

Therefore, let no man ever claim that he could, by himself & human efforts, curb or overcome a national evil of Corruption in any World Society. In fact, that is a mere human boasting or deceitful claim. It's Almighty God alone that will victoriously & perfectly curb Corruption in our contemporary Societies, by our sincere, fervent Prayer. 
Alleluia!! Amen. Hosanna In The Highest!

In Nigeria, for example, "Let every person from the President in the Aso Rock to the peasant farmers (or herdsmen) in one of the native huts anywhere in the Nation embrace the Word of God, eat the Word of God & make it our daily guide". Alleluia!!

And so shall our Heavenly Father, God Almighty, heal our land of Corruption & in all its ramifications & restore our National & Worldwide Ethical Standard.
 Alleluia!! Amen. Hosanna In The Highest!

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