Ideologia jako deformacja religii
Ideology as a deformation of religion

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary ideologies of the Western world such as socialism, liberalism, or communism are directed against religion: against religion as such, and in a special way against Christianity. This could give the impression that there is an attempt to build a society completely anti-religious or at least a religion-free society. Meanwhile, it turns out that the ideology that is supposed to replace religion is in itself some form of hidden religiosity, a sort of religion à rebour. Ideology cannot destroy religion because, by its very nature, it carries within itself the seeds of religion. And just as the slain martyr becomes a source of religious revival, so ideology becomes a source of intellectual revival which, despite its anti-religious edge, is open to faith and, moreover, it opens to faith in a rational manner. For the beginning of religion is not some irrational form of superstition, but the most rational questions possible, the answers to which will likely entail an arduous and difficult quest. Ideology is not able to destroy religion completely, because it contains aspects of religiosity that, albeit deformed, contain religion’s crucial connection to the rational search for answers to the ultimate rational questions.

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