corrupt

tainted; putrid

venal; dishonest

lacking in integrity

to taint; contaminate

alter from the original

to ruin morally; pervert

containing errors or alterations

to change the original form of

to cause to become rotten; spoil

to damage data in a file or on a disk

place under suspicion or cast doubt upon

abounding in errors; not genuine or correct

not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

to waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless

to destroy or subvert the honesty or integrity of

marked by immorality and perversion; depraved

to draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty

make illegitimate payments in exchange for favors or influence

containing errors or alterations, as a text: a corrupt translation.

changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound

to change from a sound to a putrid or putrescent state; to make putrid; to putrefy

to change from good to bad; to vitiate; to deprave; to pervert; to debase; to defile

changed from a state of uprightness, correctness, truth, etc., to a worse state; vitiated; depraved; debased; perverted; as, corrupt language; corrupt judges; corrupt text

"Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr. (R-Va.) is certainly not alone in his state of moral corruption, but, he is an excellent example of precisely what is wrong with so many of our elected leaders and what constitutes perhaps the single greatest threat to our democracy from within. I have sworn an oath to defend our Constitution and protect freedom and democracy from foreign enemies. Yet, in these past few years I have grown equally fearful of domestic enemies and now count Virgil H. Goode Jr. as one of them. Now I not only have deviant ideologues in front of me, but I also have them at my back." - Jason R. Schneider

Virgil H. Goode Jr. condemned newly elected Keith Ellison, born to a several generation American family, for stating he would use a Qu'ran, convert at 19, in a private swearing in ceremony marking his election.

righteousness

Corruption is real in human society.

People and institutions who act in an uncivil manner are behaving corruptly.

Animals can never behave corruptly because they act only instinctively.

It is noble to try to crush corruption in the institution.

But it is only noble to crush spiritual corruption in yourself - not to tyrannize other humans with your version of what is righteous and what is sinful -

God already makes that quite painfully clear.

spiritual corruption

"If we say that we have no sin,
we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us." - 1 John 1:8

We are spiritually corrupt because each and every human
has an image of their own self which only approximates reality.

Within that image of self any individual that strives for self knowledge knows that there is a separation from what one imagines one's perfect ideal self to be and the reality of what one's self truly is.

No human that walks on Earth is free from this corruption of the spirit.

This corruption of the spirit allows an individual
to act in ways that are not beneficial to the individual.

This corruption of the spirit allows an individual to fantasize
that moral rules do not neccessarily apply in his or her situation.

This corruption of the spirit has been defined as sin.

Jesus stated "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."

No man could lift his hand for a very good reason,
all humans know they are sinners or in other words, spiritually corrupt.

We are spiritually corrupt simply because we are human.

This is where the idea of Original Sin comes from.

Self doubt increases spiritual corruption.

When you fail to live up to your own ideal of yourself,
you feel bad about yourself, you feel spiritually corrupt.

You have failed .

And indeed you have failed, you are guilty as charged.

You have failed to place your vision, your imagined reality, into actual reality on Earth.

Your self confidence is eroded due to your failure.

You feel inadequate and are filled with self doubt.

Unscrupulous men have used this self doubt to craft the social controls which brand our spirits, our minds, our very souls with the religion and popular culture of the social group in which we live.

Unscrupulous men have used this self doubt for personal gain, achieved through taking unfair advantage of inexperience, ignorance and youth, throughout the history of mankind.

Unscrupulous men have used this self doubt to corrupt the religion and social fabric of a culture, to mold a culture into their imagined ideal perfect culture - Utopia.

Unscrupulous men create fallacies, built on fantasy, to reassure the people who have become spiritually corrupt due to this self doubt, this inability to actually change reality.

Mankind's major weakness lies in this corruption of the spirit -
a spiritual corruption based on believing the lies of unscrupulous men.

We want to believe we are being told the truth.

It all sounds so wonderful, so fantastic. Success lies just over the next hill.

If only you believe as directed or think as directed or act as directed, all will be well with all.

The only problem is that, overtime, it becomes harder and harder to accept lies as truth.

Overtime, it becomes harder and harder to mask the fallacies, built on fantasy,
especially when reality smacks you upside the head in the here and now.

If you can not fully tell the whole truth to yourself,
be completely honest with yourself,
then you have fallen into spiritual corruption
- a spiritual corruption which allows you
to mask unpleasant reality with fantasy.

The degree of spiritual corruption is directly proportional
to the properties of the fallacies to which one subscribes.

Fallacies about the nature of life, the Nature of God and Law of God are abundant.

They are easy targets.

Nature must, by necessity, be complex.

Life must, by necessity, be complex.

The Nature of God must, by necessity, be complex.

The Laws of God must, by necessity, be complex.

It is easy to become spiritually corrupt as every time we make a decision,
every time we choose a path there is a chance that it may be a false path.

We may have been given false information.

We may have falsely believed some thing to be true which we later discovered to be false.

We save our selves from spiritual corruption when we realize the truth,
reject the fallacy and correct the path we are on.

Through prior experience and knowledge discernment will reveal the paths true character before we follow it all the way to the end unless we reject the voice of reason and our intuition.

Living in spiritual corruption means living without recognizing the reality of life.

All human souls may be redeemed by rejecting spiritual corruption
and choosing to walk the path of life with God in the here and now.

"To know ourselves diseased is half our cure." - Alexander Pope

Spiritual corruption is rampant when reality is rejected for fantasy, when men try to elevate themselves into godhood, when men attempt to make other men conform to there ideal of perfection and when men fail to feel empathy for those less fortunate than themselves.

political corruption

"Like it or not, we function in an imperfect world, but we don't stop paying taxes because the House majority leader Tom Delay is indicted, the president skirts wiretap laws or billions of dollars in nobid contracts are awarded in Iraq and Louisiana. We can't prevent corruption, even at home, but we can build systems that catch it early." - Ken Patterson

When it was discovered that telecom corporations had broken the law by wiretapping Americans at the behest of the George W. Bush administration there was an initial push to hold those corporations responsible. Campaign contributions, to congressional Democrats who initially were for holding the telecoms responsible for breaking the law, changed several votes - granting retroactive immunity. Rahm Emmanuel was given $28,000; Steny Hoyer made $29,000; Nancy Pelosi made $24,500. For a guarantee of immunity AT&T contributed $8,191,618; Verizon Communications paid $6,830,000; Qualcomm Inc. paid $3,080,000; Qwest Communications paid $1,829,542 and Sprint/Nextel paid $1,306,000 to "our" representatives.

See sick

See Epictetus

See Original Sin

See violence and suffering

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American social mores and values have declined precipitously over the last century as the corrupt international cartel has garnered more and more power. This power rests in the ability to deceive the populace in general through mass media by pressing emotional buttons which have been preprogrammed into the population through prior mass media psychological operations. The results have been the destruction of the family and the destruction of social structures that do not adhere to the corrupt international elites vision of a perfect world. Through distraction and coercion the direction of thought of the bulk of the population has been directed toward solutions proposed by the corrupt international elite that further consolidates their power and which further their purposes.

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