Unethical practices in religion

Central to the political and financial corruption scandal in Italy, investigated in the period 1992-94, was the previously dominant Christian Democrat Party that had traditionally been intimately associated with the Catholic Church to the degree that voters were specifically advised to support it at election time by priests and bishops. The effort by the Pope in 1993 to defend the role of the Christian Democrats was therefore considered suspect, especially given the questionable role of the Vatican's own banking institutions in several scandals. In 1994 it was alleged that in Iran, in an increasingly corrupt society, individual mullahs had themselves become greedy and untrustworthy. In Japan, as part of the political and financial scandals of the 1992-94 period, the Nichiren Shoshu, the largest religious group, was alleged by its lay affiliates to be implicated in a series of scandals and a pattern of corruption. In the USA several fundamentalist preachers were implicated in scandals, notably in campaigns to defraud their constituencies. Members of the Catholic priesthood were implicated in child abuse scandals.

1. Unethical practices
2. Hoaxes

1. Unethical practices of priesthood
2. Undue religious influence on secular life
3. Theological justification of nuclear war
4. Simony
5. Religious vilification
6. Religious racism
7. Religious opposition to birth control
8. Religious legitimation of violence
9. Religious intolerance
10. Religious intimidation
11. Religious hypocrisy
12. Religious historical forgery
13. Religious fraud
14. Negative effects of claims of religious infallibility
15. Misuse of resources in religion
16. Manipulative cults
17. Ill-considered pressure to eliminate nakedness in indigenous cultures
18. Idolatry
19. Financial manipulation by sects
20. Discrimination against women in religion
21. Denial of right to freedom of religion of indigenous peoples
22. Delay of religions in acknowledging social problems
23. Corruption in organized religion
24. Commercialization of religion
25. Biased and inaccurate biology textbooks
26. Abuse of charitable status of religious institutions

1. Underprivileged religious minorities
2. Religious superstition
3. Religious and political antagonism
4. Killing sanctioned by religion
5. Deceptive social movements
6. Banned religious sects

1. Religious theology disrelated to life
2. Primitive secret societies
3. New Age spirituality
4. Cultism

1. Superficial religion
2. Satanism
3. Restrictive religious practices
4. Religious or civil refusal of divorce
5. Religion as an opiate
6. Misleading liberation theology
7. Fetishism

1. Undertaking illegal religious practices
2. Promulgating fraudulent religion
3. Observing religious practices
4. Corrupting religious institutions
5. Abolishing unethical practices in religion

1. Unethical
2. Nonreligious
3. Irresponsibility
4. Illegality
5. Fraud
6. Corruption
7. Bribery
8. Abuse