„Odwrócony dekalog”, popękana kultura. Socjologiczne refleksje wokół kultury i religijności

Abstract

Attitudes towards the Ten Commandments, expressed in accepting or rejecting its principles, mark the direction of changes in Christian civilization and culture. The results of nationwide sociological empirical research conducted among university students in 2017 were a premise for the conclusions on the deconstruction of the Decalogue, which is subject to relativization procedures and inscribed in the cultural spaces of transition from objective morality to subjective morality, from the morality of orders and prohibitions to the morality of free choices justified by the principle of situational conformism. Attitudes towards the Decalogue are not only a consequence of selective choices and rejections but also of subjective composing and free structuring of decalogical principles. The in-verted decalogue shows the broken foundations of Christian civilization and the lost experience of cultural identity expressed in the formula etsi Deus non daretur. The article consists of six points: Introduction: Culture and Religion, The Role of Religion in the Processes of Cultural Legitimation, The Decalogue in the Christian Tradition and its Role in Culture, Accepted and Rejected The Decalogue, The Decalogue of Deeply Believers and Systematic Practitioners, Conclusions.

The Identity of Fate and the Identity of Choice: Between the Routine of Continuation and the Ordinariness of Rejection

“…This is the inverse Decalogue as the first three commandments which form the axionormative basis for the Decalogue fall behind -they are least accepted or even repudiated. 26 The inverse Decalogue reveals the cracked foundations of Christian civilization and the experience of losing one's own cultural identity. Also, the weaknesses of the faith of Christians, confronted with the expansion of the radically secular philosophies in the West, 27 expressed in the formula: etsi Deus non daretur, "as if God did not exist.…”