Religious and Moral Education as a Living Subject!

Many people today attribute the alleged decline in moral standards amongst younger generation to the decreasing influence of religous bodies and religious communities.
Thus implying that without faith in a deity moral values has no firm basis.There is an admitted similarity between religion and morality. Both are concerned with attitudes intentions and questions of value. moreover both appeal to the case of morality awe and wonder in the case of religion.
Therefore it's of great necessity for every teacher not to separate the two elements as one is teaching religious and moral education.
Religious and Moral Education is an intentional ,valuable long lasting interpersonal activity of the whole person which involves knowing and understanding in depth and breath of the religious aspect with the depth dimension of life.
People's ultimate concerns , commitments and the search of transcendent. Morality entells the norms and values of any given society. Every intelligent and well educated person needs to be sympathetically and critically exposed to the norms and values of his society as well as other people's societies.
It should be the intention of every teacher to produce individuals who are autonomous ,who can make their own informed independent judgement. Teachers should therefore expose children to as many situation as possible and also invite opinions from different people by using open ended questions. Especially after having delive a story from a religious text.Religious and Moral Education should be taken as comparative study of morals in different societies.
There should be any facts or rules when it comes to the learning of Religious and Moral Education.Pupils should be exposed to various forms of information so that they make their own decisions. Religious and Moral Education should try to make people to the see best ways of controlling their emotions so as to be rationale.
Religious and Moral Education as a social subject should help pupils to decide which particular criteria is important in judging rationality of their moral emotions. Pupils should go beyond the primary stage of development through the activities given by the teacher of one's actions on the feelings ,interests and needs of others.
However the advent of communication technology led to the rapid decline of moral standards as they subdued by this advancements. The scripts viewed on the films on TV,internet and so on is very strong to change the feelings of the viewer. It mostly associated with culture of immoral illicities which produced to influence the viewers badly. As consequences traditional moral standards of the societies are threatened and become extinct. Many religious institutions worldover are witnessing the massive decline of believers who strictly follow religious doctrines which has common good for humanity. The influences of globalisation and allowance of freedom ,awareness of human rights has detrimental changes to our own cultural changes.