Religion Support and Education
As it stands, we are the transition stage. We have no structure, there
is no black and white, we live in a clouded time. All questions are being
answered again, because the past is no longer the present. No person knows if
our corrections are correct, but they do know it is what the majority wants.
The question which is rarely looked at, and that will be looked at in this paper,
is the effects which this transition is having on society. This paper is going
to attempt to reveal the results, of the removal of religious education and
support. The literature involved is going to display the direct, and indirect
effects, of not being brought up to believe a certain religion, but to choose
your own, no matter what it is.
The past beliefs on religious support and education are displayed in the
words of Aristotle;
"Moral virtues come from habit... The habits we form from childhood make
no small difference, but rather they make all the difference." 1 Our society has
decided that the habits referred to by Aristotle, do not matter, when involving
religion. Statistics tend to show a different result than what our present
society feels. This paper is dealing with several different valid sources,
which mesh together to make a collective statement. This statement is that the
lack of religious support is one of the main reasons why society and its morals
are decreasing.
World Vision of Canada has published as of November 1993 statistics
dealing with the attendance of church and youth, which states; Canada's church
attendance, in all denominations has d ...