Zb. Zak Thoughts: Social Sin

Thoughts 33/2025

14 August 2025

The fruitage of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, mildness, self-control. Against specified [curts] there is no Law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus crucified their flesh with his passions and desires. Having life from the Spirit, let us besides follow the Spirit. Let us not search vain glory, irritate 1 another and envy 1 another. (Ga 5, 22-26).

But having food and clothing and shelter, let us be content with it! And those who want to be rich fall into temptation and ambush and many unreasonable and harmful desires. They plunge people into demolition and destruction. For the greed of money is the root of all evil. Following them, any wandered distant from the faith, and themselves pierced many with pains (1 Tim 6: 8-10).

The public opinion in Poland electrifies the issue of the distribution of grants under the KPO programme. And you can anticipate further scandalous news. In early August, an interactive map was published on the government website of the National Reconstruction Plan, thanks to which netizens noticed that any companies received grants for purposes specified as yachts, furniture, saunas, solarium, coffee machines, virtual shooting ranges, swingers' club or bridge game platform. It besides turned out that among the projects co-financed from the KPO, as part of the support for the HoReCa sector (hotels, gastronomy, catering) people associated with the governing environment received money. It besides turned out that there was a black marketplace in the network for "intermediators" who arranged grants. The government camp claims that there is no scandal, the opposition indicates that it should be said not about the scandal, but about the standard method of governing KO, where subsidies flow from the little prosperous to the wealthy.

Through the usage of grants under the KPO, man is active in dependence on power. If individual erstwhile took money for specified projects, they will gotta defend them to the end and fight those who criticize them or are indifferent.

Where is the origin of all this? Or just the chance to take advantage?

The origin of all evil is the greed of money, says Scripture. And the sin of individuals negatively affects the full community. Here is the question of "social sin".

Sin is simply a breaking relation with God, an act of a peculiar individual who, as a free reasonable being, tells God: “I will not serve! I don't trust you!” He submits to Satan’s temptation and destroys himself. Sin straight touches the sinner himself, and it is he who bears the consequences of sin, but it is not without affecting the life of the group or community. Social sin is the act of an individual who is "spreading" on others. It undermines common trust, destroys social ties, breaks the sense of community, weakens members of the community.

And if through unfair actions any get subsidies for socially unnecessary projects, it triggers an avalanche of another grants. Smart people can search and arrange to aid others gain public funds.

"Social sin" in theological terms refers to sins that have a negative impact on the full community, not just on the individual. It includes violations of justice, the rights of a human person, the common good, and sins in social structures. It can take the form of acts or omissions and manifest itself in institutionalized forms of evil.

"The most common social sin is the sin of a bad example. Here's individual doing something objectively wrong. At first many get worse, criticize, condemn. But then after a while, the effect of habit takes place and individual begins to replicate the same evil in their life, then another individual and another. The individual’s bad conduct led to the spread of any evil in the community. This is the sin of an evil example which spills upon many people.”

This is the case in the case of funds from the KPO that the authorities can dispose of. First, they search resources for socially beneficial purposes. But erstwhile it is noted that smart people are getting money for their private affairs, others are starting to ask for something for themselves. frequently there is this argument: it is not someone's money; no 1 will lose it. Unfortunately, it's common money, and we'll all gotta submit to give it back.

The NAP measures are the kind of fund that the European Union as a full has been indebted to, and it will return these measures, indicating the countries to which they must contribute. Thus EU bureaucrats centralize power and the Polish authorities renounced part of sovereignty (which the erstwhile government unfortunately agreed to). The EU besides decides which projects will be implemented. More in conversation with Jakub Wozinski: https://www.youtube.com/embed/aAmn6r7yU74.

Is it good that any people receive funds at their discretion and are not obliged to return them erstwhile the company has achieved economical success?

Another example of social sin is spreading lies and misinformation. This is done in different ways: in direct contact, in conversation, but besides online, on social networks, erstwhile we deliberately lie, we manipulate.

The social sin that is common present is the silence for evil present in society or community; the belief that there are no weaknesses or faults. specified an attitude creates susceptible ground for harmful behaviour and even pathologies. It contributes to further weakening the community and demoralising its members.

For more information on social sins, see Fr S. Fennel: html

Many people have adopted the rule that available resources for themselves and friends should be used. It weakens the patriotic attitude to give something of itself to the community, the nation. We do something of our own due to the fact that we want the Homeland to develop.

And the anniversary of the miracle over Vistula clearly indicates that at the time young people were ready to give something of their property, but were ready to sacrifice their lives for the independency of Poland. Let this example decision us to make sacrifices. In times of peace, let it inspire us to support useful initiatives with its material means and willingness to participate in social initiatives, specified as defending the local community from threats.