Can spirituality be a solution for crime and corruption?

Hi kiddo, I too feel spirituality is private.. how I relate or perceive god may be a whole lot different from what you think or imagine. And yes, religion and spirituality are not synonymous. Even religion cant be taught. But as far as putting dangerous criminals in monastery, I do have some thoughts. If spirituality does make people calmer and more capable of answering the questions of people, then may be it would be possible for them to reform dangerous criminals, and make them see light by patiently understanding and answering their questions, and calming their feelings. I believe many dangerous criminals are so because they've been ill-treated, or something unjust has happened to them. That lot at least can benefit considerably from spiritual company.

I have never thought of spirituality being a private feeling. Generally speaking, spiritual people are believers in one god or another. I am a Christian,(and therefore, believe in God). I do not think that I can keep my spirituality a private matter. If you are living a Godly life, then it shows itself. I agree that you can not force spirituality on other people. You can share your beliefs and tell them of your experiences, but you can not dictate what is in their heart and soul or what they choose to believe. I think that if not a solution, true spirituality would be at the very least a deterent to crime and corruption. If we all obeyed the laws of God, there would be neither of those things for any of us to worry about. To put criminals in a monestary instead of a prison would be interesting experiment.

I think being religious may help. Only if the person will life with the teaching of his religion. But it will not totally eliminate crime and corruption. It is more on the self discipline and values of an individual that makes the difference.

Hi sweetie. We can try and put them in a monastery, but that won't work out so well. I always say. You cannot make people believe and be spiritual. It has to come from one self. Spirituality won't ever never solve those problems. I wish they will stop pestering people like that. It's irritating. TATA.

We can apply wisdom through our actions with regards to religion and spirituality. However we cannot forcibly enforce religion and or spirituality. I find that crime and corruption cannot be solved by anyone wanting, needing and enforcing the need to solve it. Crime and corruption has to be stopped because the person(s) no longer want to partake and or commit them. No one can change anyone into anything, we can only simply apply our opinions and hope for the best. Strictly my opinion and in no way enforcing upon anyone.

I agree that spirituality cannot be taught, but what's bad is it can be faked, and we have no way of confirming if the spiritual person is for real or just fooling all of usand what if get to elect the so-called fake gurus to a high position in office like the presidency of prime ministry?I don't think it's a good idea to put dangerous criminals is a monastery,if they fool us pretending they have already been transformed LOL, there gonna do some real terrible things to those nuns and monks in the monastery maybe we should keep them where they belong. Nice topic and nice discussing, good luck

Dear friend, I feel how well this is accepted by those criminals. Moreover may be people have more belief in these. It might be a kind of brainwashing them to another world. It depends a better part on those who try to brainwash them. I feel it is easy to be done to those who get enough reasons to believe something.

True spirituality can really be a solution for crime and corruption. Or should I say, true spirituality is the only everlasting solution for all sins on Earth. There's all the hype about spirituality, because there are people who misuse spirituality as a cover to commit crimes such as cheating, propaganda and so on. Then, there is also the confusion between religion and spirituality, as some people would lump religion and spirituality together and use them interchangeably, while others would side with one of them and condemn the other. All this happens because these people do not understand spirituality well enough. To me, spirituality is really a simple thing. It just means to follow God's Wish and His Will for me. I know, some people will ask "Won't you use that as an excuse to do some evil things, to shirk responsibility, to do this, to do that...?" That occurs because they don't know this - God will never tell a person to do things that will affect others negatively, He will only tell that person to help others, to improve society and to grow spiritually. When a person grows spiritually, the inclination in him to do evil, which is deeply embedded in his subconscious mind, will be removed at its roots through the Grace and Will of God. Thus the person would gradually become less inclined to commit crimes and do evil. In time to come, doing bad things would become totally against his nature, and he'll never think of doing it at all. Spirituality can be private in some sense, because everyone has a different amount of destiny that they need to overcome before they can truly grow spiritually. However it doesn't mean the way to do it is different for each people. That's because God has granted all people the same way to become one with Him. The part about showing people the way is quite true too, because the theory can only bring you a small step ahead in spiritually. The more important thing would be to experience spirituality, by putting into practice the theories and advice given. Only then will the seeker be able to advance.

I will agree with you that spirtuality isn't something that can be taught, but I tend to think that everyone has their own form of spirituality while not everyone has religion in their lives. That said, I don't think that everyone having spirituality is something that would be able to solve the problems of crime and corruption in the world today. Instead, I think that in order to get rid of all crime and corruption all people need to have an understanding of the difference between right and wrong.

I don't think so. Like u mentioned, spirituality is a private thing. It's all in the mind, and how are people going to believe in what they said, when we don't even know what's really going through their mind. It's dangerous to try it this way because it's more likely to backfire than work. It might only work after years when the criminal themselves are tired of being on the run, then they would consider spirituality.