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LWI Newsletter 77 –  Materialistic integrity policy, a contradiction in terms

“We are no longer to be children (uninformed persons), tossed here and there by waves, and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming.” – Paul of Tarsus, first-century Christian philosopher.

In our last edition, we dealt with the poor results of the fight against integrity breaches, which LWI attributes to the materialistic approach to integrity. What took place in the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe, i.e., the birth of science, was interwoven with a hidden deception. Science in itself is a blessing with exponential growth in fields like transport, medicine, communication, and so on. But there is a catch. Observational science has to be empirical (observable, testable, and repeatable), but to extrapolate this principle even to the point that society should be built on this foundation is deceptive.

Let’s be clear: the pioneers of the scientific method were believers (like Francis Bacon, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, etc.). However, atheist scientists misused the premises to practice science (empiricism) in order to promote the thought that only matter exists. Since then, governments and policymakers who believed this lie have tried to solve all our problems, including integrity breaches, with materialistic tools.

Now, materialism isn’t just about craving money and material possessions. The core belief is that only matter exists and spiritual entities do not. In their view, life has to be stripped from all kinds of spiritual considerations. Do you see the problem? They might admit that integrity is a moral issue, but at the same time, they profess that spiritual entities don’t exist. Designing any policy consistent with these two premises becomes impossible in that case.

As stated in our last Newsletter, the main stumbling block of such an integrity policy is the deception that you include religion in its building blocks the moment you acknowledge that integrity breaches are linked to morality. It’s not about religion but about your worldview. Your worldview is how you look at life and live it out, which inescapably includes a standpoint on non-material issues. For example, how you define integrity. Whether you like it or not, your life is based on a series of spiritual premises, deliberately or not, chosen by you.

Some worldviews are contradictory, and it’s up to us to live by a worldview compatible with logic and our conscience. In our next edition, we will discuss the acceptability of the existing worldviews.