Disintegration is the main event in corruption —the breakdown of personal and social integrity, the loss of shape, strength, and purpose that make some entity an “entirety” and make it this entirety. 63 As Sylvia Fraser’s story reminds us, sin tends to disintegrate both its victims and its perpetrators. Disintegration is always deterioration, the prelude and postlude to death.
— Cornelius Plantinga Jr., A Breviary of Sin
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