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To the editor:
The drug problem, the savings and loan scandal, the failure of leadership in the political and business community, all raise the question: What is wrong with our moral and ethical training?
In addition to our other educational problems, we are apparently not teaching our children right from wrong. Of course, to err is human, power corrupts, and greed and selfishness are a genetic part of nature’s plan for survival. They have always been with us, and probably always will be.
What bothers me is that today our business, political, and religious leaders, once having been caught in some egregious act, exhibit little remorse or even acceptance of their wrong doing. Anyone who reads the newspapers can think of a dozen names, without my mentioning them here.
Having been caught in some egregious act, these malfeasants first insist they have done nothing wrong! Their second action, if the proof is undeniable, is to seek medical help for this or that illness as defined by the latest academic psycobabble. Finally, if all else fails, they “find God,” the modern equivalent of medieval sanctuary.
Ironically, I believe, they return to the institution that may have set them on the wrong course in the first place. Let me explain.
When I was young, my parents sent me to Sunday school. When I reached adolescene. I was “con
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