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    The Disaster of the Absence of Moral and Religious Education in the American Public Schools: Controversies and Possible Solutions
    The Disaster of the Absence of Moral and Religious Education in the American Public Schools: Controversies and Possible Solutions
    The Disaster of the Absence of Moral and Religious Education in the American Public Schools: Controversies and Possible Solutions
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    The Disaster of the Absence of Moral and Religious Education in the American Public Schools: Controversies and Possible Solutions

    By Christopher Ezeh

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    Thomas Aquinas, in his philosophy of religion, said that man is a
    religious being (homo religiosus). By this he meant that man is a
    being that naturally stretches to the beyond, to the unknown outside
    of himself. He yearns and reaches out for an infinite peace, joy, and
    happiness. He does all within his power to grasp an endless happiness,
    a joy that knows no end. This has been his instinctive, conscious,
    and unconscious aspiration. He tends to pursue and grab that which
    captures his attention and wins his admiration. Many a time, he ends
    up grabbing a shadow, an illusion of real happiness, an illusion of the
    source of true and lasting happiness. When he grabs that shadow, he
    settles to worship it as the ultimate source of an infinite happiness. It
    will not be long before he discovers that it is all a mirage.
    This ultimate joy and happiness is not found within mans immediate
    environment, because whatever he clings to seems to fail in providing
    such ultimate joy, peace, and happiness, which men, by nature, tend to
    yearn and long for. Man has always interpreted peace, joy, happiness,
    and their sources differently. Thus, his beliefs and objects of worship,
    devotion, and dedication vary one from anotherhence the reason for
    different world religions and creeds today (Christianity, Judaism, Islam,
    Buddhism, atheism, etc.).
    To say that man is a religious being implies that naturally man
    always believes in and worships something. Hence, there can never
    be an atheist in the real sense of it. Not to believe is to believe. For
    example, not to believe in the existence of God is to believe that
    God does not exist. Even though some people do not believe in the
    existence of a personal God or god, they still believe in something,
    which could be anythingmoney, freedom, wealth, riches, power,beauty, achievement, talent, name it. Just as our ancient fathers
    believed in carved idols as gods and worshipped them, so do people
    in the modern time hold on tenaciously to all kinds of idols in the form
    of money, beauty, wealth, riches, power, achievement, talent, etc., and
    worship them as gods and hope that someday these might give them
    an endless peace and happiness, which have been the ultimate end of
    mans endeavor or pursuit on earth.
    This false hope of mans longing to achieve endless peace and
    happiness from material possessions or natural endowment explains
    itself in some ancient cultures whereby the dead are buried along with
    some of their possessions, including gold, money, slaves, etc. The fact
    that people of outstanding talents, riches, and wealth have committed
    suicide has put a big question mark to this erroneous ideology that
    happiness could be achieved through material possession. What
    was wrong in the lives of those affluent and talented people who
    killed themselves contrary to all instincts of self-preservation? What
    was missing in their lives that none of their material acquisitions or
    achievements could satiate or afford?
    Man longs for lasting happiness. He has the capacity to conceive and
    yearn for infinite happiness. Hence, he does not want to be happy today
    and sad tomorrow. But how would he achieve that joy or happiness that has
    no end, which has always remained mans unrealized dream? No branch of
    discipline or knowledge has been able to provide an answer and a remedy
    to mans natural longing for endless joy, lasting peace, and happiness, but
    religion. Religion has an answer, a remedy, and a hope.
    In this book, I will demonstrate how religion provides an answer, a
    remedy, and a hope for mans ultimate search and yearning for lasting
    peace and happiness in his life and in the society in which he lives. I
    will explore the idea that man is a spiritual as well as a religious being. I
    will also delve into how his natural endowment with freedom, intellect,
    and will enables him to express his religiosity.
    I will further demonstrate how the misinterpretation and
    misapplication
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateOct 20, 2010
    ISBN9781453584170
    The Disaster of the Absence of Moral and Religious Education in the American Public Schools: Controversies and Possible Solutions
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    Christopher Ezeh

    Fr. Christopher O. Ezeh is a citizen of the United States of America. He published his first book in 1994, titled Children: A Blessing or a Curse; The Task of Family Child Upbringing. Christopher earned his bachelors degrees in philosophy and in theology in 1990 and 1994, respectively, from the Pontifical Urban University Rome. He did his masters degree in educational administration, with specialization in higher education, at the University of Rochester, New York, USA, and graduated in March 2006. He also earned a masters degree in theology from the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, USA, graduating in December 2009. Fr. Christopher was endorsed as a Chaplain for and by the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, in 2007. Fr. Christopher is currently a PhD research student. His hobbies include reading and writing, music, badminton, and jogging.

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