The Survival Guide for Christians on Campus by Tony Campolo

Author:Tony Campolo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SOC035000
Publisher: Howard Books
Published: 2002-04-12T04:00:00+00:00

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Corporate sin that results in structural evil has to be exposed.

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Although the world refers to such inequality as “the challenge of education finance,” this kind of unjust arrangement should be called “structural evil.” The ways in which things have been set up by the laws and economic arrangements of various communities leads to urban children being short changed. As a result, many of them fail to realize their God-given potential. Such sin is not the result of what people do individually; it comes from the way those in positions of power have structured the financing of schools.

Corporate sin that results in structural evil has to be exposed before the general public can even begin to feel any guilt about it or be driven to any acts of repentance. It is your Christian obligation to learn as much as you can about how businesses, media, government, and other social systems sometimes function oppressively so that you can work for social justice and endeavor to set things right. Sin is sin; it is dehumanizing rebellion against the purposes of God, whether it occurs in a bedroom or a boardroom.

Repentance for corporate sin requires collective action and as a Christian, you are required to do what you can to change things. Social systems that dehumanize the poor (and the poor are usually the victims) must be challenged in the name of Jesus and aided in metamorphosis. Environmental degradation, the debts of Third World countries that leave the poorest of the poor to pay for the failures of their governments, the trade arrangements that cause weak nations to be exploited unfairly by the business interests of strong nations, and the discrimination minority groups must often endure when trying to get jobs are just some of the corporate sins that come from structural evil. Sins on the societal level seldom generate personal feelings of guilt, despite their dehumanizing consequences. Nevertheless, we need to repent of them and take the political action that is essential to make things right.

We have spent much time talking about our corporate sin because, in our experience, that’s the sin that is most difficult for many of us to recognize. Sometimes it’s easier to be honest about our personal faults than to see the faults in our nation. Yet whether personal or corporate, sin tends to be of one piece.

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