The Provost of the College of Arts and Social Science of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Prof. Dr Daniel Bour, has expressed dissatisfaction at the growing indiscipline, corruption and conflict in and outside the country. "The atrocities perpetuated through war, the indescribable crime wave, the heinous immorality that gets beyond animalistic levels could only be described as an 'umbra (darkest) era' in human history," he said. Prof. Dr Bour, therefore, urged religious leaders, parents and the youth to collaborate towards fighting the wrongs in society. He was speaking at the opening of the youth congress of the South Ghana Conference (SGC) of the Seventh Day Church (SDA) in Kumasi. It was on the theme: "It is Time to Shine". Prof. Dr Bour said political, ethnic and social conflicts that claimed thousands of lives daily were "phenomenal other than insidious". "War-torn areas multiply by geometrical progression. Added to the Middle East are Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia, portions of Uganda, Nigeria and Sudan. In Ghana, it is the Bawku ethnic confusion that has claimed scores of lives. "There is moral decay; immorality of ail forms is crippling the moral fibre of society. Man is marrying man and women are playing indecency with womankind. For pre-marital and extra marital sex, even within the church, the least said about them the better," he said. Prof. Dr Bour stressed that rape of innocent women and girls by irresponsible men had increased, wanton destruction of human lives outside was also on the ascendancy, while people were losing their lives through armed robbery and serial killing. "There have been reports of some religious ministers who preach righteousness and behave like infidels. Some, in the process of counselling married women ended-up playing indecency with them to completely destroy marriages. “Darkness in economic life through corruption is common and some Christians, so-called, are implicated. Through over-invoicing and under invoicing, institutio0ns are collapsing. Both Christians and non-Christians are involved,” he said. According to Prof. Dr Bour, it was established that less than 35 per cent of church membership in the church returned their tithes regularly. He therefore asked the public to live righteous lives, saying that “the darkness is great and there is the need to shine to overcome it.” Source: Daily Graphic