{"id":4403,"date":"2018-07-23T10:29:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T10:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/23\/institutional-corruption\/"},"modified":"2018-07-23T10:29:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T10:29:08","slug":"institutional-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/23\/institutional-corruption\/","title":{"rendered":"Institutional Corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Without institutions, where would we be? <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">But they are all corrupt, potentially if not actually, in part if not in whole, and constantly in need of reform. The Roman Catholic Church is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/cardinals-mccarrick-tobin-omalley-farrell-sex-abuse\/\">no exception<\/a> despite its claim to divine sanction and guidance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">You should be skeptical of all institutions.&#0160; Like the houses out here, they either have termites or will get them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">But institutional corruption reflects personal corruption. Institutional corruption is the heart&#39;s corruption writ large. So you should be skeptical of all persons, including the one in the mirror. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Especially him, since he is the one you have direct control over.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without institutions, where would we be? But they are all corrupt, potentially if not actually, in part if not in whole, and constantly in need of reform. The Roman Catholic Church is no exception despite its claim to divine sanction and guidance. You should be skeptical of all institutions.&#0160; Like the houses out here, they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/07\/23\/institutional-corruption\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Institutional Corruption&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}