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Saturday, October 16, 2010

RELIGIOUS AND MORAL EDUCATION AS A SOCIAL AND SPIRITUAL SUBJECT.

People are said their thoughts square back to the concept that their world and their life originated and designed by a specific being with high supremacy in their spiritual helm.Karl Max popularly noted by his assertations that he says religion is the opium of human mind.
One of the leading Zimbabwean scuptor Tapfuma Gutsa also says,"God is the product of human mind." In his stone scuptures his themes are drawn from religious practices and view it in the visual of his sculpting skills on stones with impression of an aesthetic,admirative and decorative purposes.
John ,B Noss in his book 'Man's Religions cited in the watchtower book titled 'Mankind's search for God'(1990:28) points out that:''All religions say one way or another that man does not ,and can not ,stand alone .He is vitally related with and even dependent on powers in Nature and Society external to himself. Dimly or clearly ,he knows that he is not an independent center of force capable of standing apart from the world.''
Religion therefore is a phenomenon found in human existance.Hence religious education is meant to provide children with opportunities for exploring their own and other people's religions and moral experiences.
The book of world religions-from Ancient History to the present ,quoted in the same publisher noted above says:''The study of religion reveals that an important feature of it is a longing for value in life ,a belief that life is not accidental and meaningless.The search for meaning leads to faith in a power greater than human ,and finally to a universal or superhuman mind which has intention and will to maintain the highest values for human life''.
The children should have the knowledge of rejecting or accepting intelligibly any particular religious or moral stance.Proving the existence of God on any morals ,religious facts and beliefs provide them with faith tools for the life long search for religious needs which is similar to human's basic needs such as food,love,accommodation,belonging ,clean environment for sustainence of life.
The objections takes roots from reflections of societies in the world's different religions and morals rather than Clegymen or religious and moral philosophers.
Religion is an economic and social factor in which teachers should expose religions to the children in their daily activities. Helping them to respect other people who hold beliefs of constrast to others for promotion of tolerance and propensity for reconciliation.
Morals are essential for interaction to every individual 's society or world for the good of one's society or world.
Prominent religious faith in the society has detrimental effects to the children to the extend that they are being succumbed to the moral stance of their followers . Therefore a child adheres to secure direction ,faith and validity of that religion.

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