Degradacja życia religijno-moralnego jako zagrożenie ładu społeczno-cywilizacyjnego
The Degradation of Religious and Moral Life as a Threat to Civic and Social Order

Summary/Abstract: As a personal being, man needs contact with other people in order to fully and properly flourish both personally and socially. This imperative impels man to go “beyond” others and to seek contact with a Transcendental Being, meaning God. Contact with God gives man a sense of safety that enables him to come to know the norms of behavior that stabilize human existence and make proper interpersonal relationships possible. In contemporary society, however, man has departed from this concept, he lives “without God,” and is no longer “open to God.” Religious and moral indifferentism, or living “as if God does not exist,” is a manifestation of such an attitude. When treated as the highest value, materialism becomes the axiological orientation of human existence, which results in the degradation of religious and moral life and threatens social and civic order. This article examines this issue by focusing on two dimensions: 1) the degradation of religious and moral life as a contemporary phenomenon, and 2) the threat to social and civic order that results from religious and moral indifferentism.

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