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Eye on the world: Removing corruption from government
In “Despite turmoil, Brazil keeps up push to jail corrupt politicians” The Christian Science Monitor reports that “several weeks of political turmoil revolving around Brazil’s Senate cumulated in its president, Renan Calheiros, being indicted on corruption charges on Monday, adding him to the list of politicians accused in Operation Car Wash, the country’s largest ever corruption investigation.” The investigation has “become a take-no-prisoners investigation, dismantling a decades-old kickback scheme between the state-owned oil company, Petrobras, and construction giants. The investigation has resulted in the imprisonment of some of the nation’s wealthiest businessmen and high-ranking politicians.” The threat of a constitutional crisis and uncertainty about the future have raised concerns that “Brazilian politics may be plagued with instability not seen in the young democracy since the years around the fall of the dictatorship in 1985.”
Ideas on this subject:
From the Bible:
Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
From the writings of Mary Baker Eddy:
Jesus aided in reconciling man to God by giving man a truer sense of Love, the divine Principle of Jesus’ teachings, and this truer sense of Love redeems man from the law of matter, sin, and death by the law of Spirit,—the law of divine Love.
— Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 19
Mankind will be God-governed in proportion as God’s government becomes apparent, the Golden Rule utilized, and the rights of man and the liberty of conscience held sacred. Meanwhile, they who name the name of Christian Science will assist in the holding of crime in check, will aid the ejection of error, will maintain law and order, and will cheerfully await the end—justice and judgment.
— The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 222
Related articles from The Christian Science Journal and the Christian Science Sentinel:
In “Government—who governs it?”: “Each one of us can, through prayer, find new capacities to help bring change to a cynical climate of thought and a “why bother” attitude about government. The truth is that moral and spiritual values have power. They point to the way things properly function, and prayer makes this clearer.” And “Christ Jesus gave the example of someone wholly in obedience to the loving Father-Mother God and so expressing the highest degree of self-government. The Master changed people’s thinking from skepticism and fear to an understanding of God as divine Love, or the Principle of being, and healing and regeneration followed.”
In “Individuals unite in their efforts to protect their civic and...”: “True government expresses Principle, but if a concept of God is entertained which is incompatible with Principle, the quality of government will straightway be lowered.” And “As humanity grows more honest and learns the lesson of unselfish cooperation, government is enabled to develop further activities, but it must ever repose upon the one cause, upon God, as its sure foundation. Therefore, the study of the nature of God elucidates the basis of true government and makes obedience scientific and gratitude natural. ”
The articles above and others dealing with this subject can be found on JSH-Online.com or on CSMonitor.com.