IT MAY sound strange but it is that in the west the discussion about the role of ethics, morality, religion and spirituality in the realm of public affairs and governance been deftly avoided. Perhaps sufferings caused by a few who interpreted and applied certain religious dicta created a hard-boiled cynicism, giving to general conception that the process of administration should be kept outside the influence and interference of religion and morality. It was also thought that to serve the public effectively, effectively, economically and evenly the statecraft had to be kept of dirty party-politics, patronage, and scandalous behavior. This was seen necessary because government rules and regulations were considered purely objective, data-based, and secular endeavor. Politics and morality (drawn on organised religion) were seen as subjective factors, mostly emotive, very personal in nature. The side-effect of decades of fencing- out morality and ethics was the creation of a generation of…
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