Is it Possible to Successfully Combat Corruption by Scanning Old Rosaries?

The article is dedicated to the International Day against Corruption, which is celebrated annually on December 9. Corruption as a  complex socio-economic phenomenon is generated by a variety of  reasons, most of which have already been identified and subjected  to comprehensive analysis. But in Russia, corruption has become  monstrous, extremely corrupt local, regional and federal officials  mock openly over helpless legislation, the consequences of which are seen in the flight of capital from the country, and in the  recession / stagnation of the national economy, and in the tragic  events of recent times. In the end, corruption undermines the basis for the economic security of the Russian state and undermines  the emerging clusters of the national idea. The author of the  material continues to understand the causes of corruption and considers the vital issues of this so far insufficiently successful struggle and inefficient counteraction to corruption phenomena that  are found in various areas of life and not only our society but also  many other countries. The author also tries to find out how  corruption is interpreted in the views of the main world religions —  Christianity (partly), 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 an immoral, harmful and destructive phenomenon — corruption, which  deeply impressed the national economies of many developed and  most developing countries of the planet, are being voiced. The  author cites episodes of corruption from the Scriptures of the world  religions, gives his own, sometimes controversial or controversial interpretation. At the end of the article, the author  expresses his opinion on measures to combat corruption in the form  of three independent conclusions. The author’s attempt to express  his attitude to the accumulated experience of the sacred struggle  against corruption, which is very contradictory in its quality, boils  down to the following: instead of solving a concrete, fixed and  described problem, it is attempted to reformulate and belittle its  danger through sophisticated connotations.

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