The Social Character of Sin/Three Types of Social Sin

As social beings, we regulate our lives in society by various structures and institutions. Structures and institutions become sinful when they perpetrate injustice and inhibiting integral human development. When personal sin creeps into the very systems, structures and institutions of society, it brings about what we call social sin.

[Social structure refers to the network of social relationship, and its study, according to Ginsberg, "is concerned with the principal form of social organization that is types of groups, associations and institutions and the complex of these which constitute societies."]

Stop Lumad killings, respect ancestral lands – Mindanao bishops

Several leaders of Catholic and Protestant churches in the Philippines have come out in support of the Lumad

‘Lumad’ in gold-rich Mindanao targeted

Philippine Daily Inquirer / 01:10 AM September 07, 2015

DAVAO CITY—Indigenous peoples in the provinces of Davao del Norte, Surigao del Sur and Bukidnon share the same experiences of being harassed, killed and displaced by paramilitary groups and government soldiers, according to Kalumaran, a confederation of different tribes in Mindanao.

The Philippines: A Culture of Impunity

Corazon Miller

A largely corrupt political system, volatile criminal justice processes, the overpowering presence of the ruling class and an impoverished people. All these combined with a simple word – impunity - create the fabric of the ‘culture,’ which permeates the South-East-Asian nation of the Philippines with far reaching consequences. In a 90-page report presented by Filipino Church leaders in March 2007 at a United Nations office in Geneva, impunity from detection and prosecution was labeled as the catalyst for many of the human rights violations in the Philippines.

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Three Types of Social Sin

1. STRUCTURES which systematically oppress people, their human dignity, and violate human rights, stifle human freedom and impose gross inequality between rich and poor. This type of oppression is usually due to fear of those in authority; or fear brought about by war and demeaning policies.

[Social structure refers to the network of social relationship, and its study, according to Ginsberg, "is concerned with the principal form of social organization that is types of groups, associations and institutions and the complex of these which constitute societies."]

2. SITUATIONS which promote and facilitate greed and human selfishness. This type of oppression may rise from lack of education, whereby one is not able to recognize one's state of oppression (e.g., unjust deception and manipulation). This type of oppression may also arise from grinding poverty, when all one's energies are channeled into the struggle to survive (i.e., powerlessness).

3. The COMPLICITY of persons who do not take responsibility for evil being done or who silently allow oppression and injustice. This type of oppression may arise from sheer despondency in the face of injustice.

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Farmers oppose open-pit copper-gold mine in Davao Sur

By: Kristine L. Alave / @inquirerdotnet

Philippine Daily Inquirer / 06:00 PM May 27, 2012

MANILA, Philippines — A battle between farmers and Sagittarius Mines, the operator of the copper-gold mine set to open in southern Mindanao in 2016, is looming over water resources in the lush, mineral-rich province of Davao del Sur.

Coca-Cola 'comparable to heroin' in how it stimulates the brain's reward and pleasure centers

The worldwide movement toward economic, financial, trade, and communications integration.

Globalization implies the opening of local and nationalistic perspectives to a broader outlook of an interconnected and interdependent world with free transfer of capital, goods, and services across national frontiers. However, it does not include unhindered movement of labor and, as suggested by some economists, may hurt smaller or fragile economies if applied indiscriminately.

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