The Scandals in Religion
The society always seek guidance from religion. Therefore religion and its leader should be role model for common man. However it is disturbing that some black patches are found in religious hierarchy. It was observed that several religious sex scandals and mismanagement of religious institutions have come up wherein religious heads or institutions are involved.
The Rape cases relating to Asharam Bapu and Swami Nityanand are the prominent among them. The kashiviswanath Temple of Kashi is one of the most prominent places of Hindu religion. kashipith head Rudranand Saraswati has been going on complaining regarding the large scale corruption prevailing in the management of the said Temple. He alleges that anarchy is prevailing in the management of temple due to vested interest. These all shows how moral values have gone down in the religious matters.
There are so many cases of child abuses and sex scandals by priest in Christian church that churches have now no funds to pay compensation. It is unfortunate that some time even ladies and children are not safe in the religious places.
It is said that once Pakistani Military Ruler Aahyakhan was black mailed by one of the Muslim Maulvis. He sent the video tapes of personal sex life of said Maulvi and he has to shut his mouth. This shows how religion and its leaders can impose the morality on society if they are themselves are not beyond doubt.
Hence no Religion can claim that all their leaders are clean but it can at least handle such culprits in deterrent manner. Besides that even people has to deal with religious leader cautiously as they cannot taken granted beyond fault. It is the collective efforts of Religious institutions and people can only prevent such scandals.
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