Original scientific paper

Agnosticism and Religious Indifferentism

Lino Veljak orcid.org/0000-0003-2887-0668 ; Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

This paper will try to investigate the nature of relation between secularization, agnosticism (as well as atheism) and the growth of religious indifferentism and practical indifference concerning the questions of faith and transcendental dimensions of being. Secularization didn't produce indifferentism (with the exception of the growth of relativism and pluralization of conceptions of world), but the Enlightenment influenced the progression of religious indifferentism and in the same time the growth of practical indifference; modern materialistic atheism produced antitheistic practices, especially in the countries of so-called real socialism. The repression against religion and religious practice didn't produce the marginalization of religiosity, but practical materialism of modern and postmodern consumerist societies is producing the progression of contemporary moral relativism and indifference. The open question whether religious people are in the moral sense better than irreligous people could be resolved through the answer to the question: are evil, violence and inhumanity in our times of progression of theoretical agnosticism and practical indifferentism more visible than in classic times of unity between State and Church? The question of morality could be resolved only through practice, not through doctrinarian discussions about faith and agnosticism.

Keywords

agnosticism; indifferentism; indifference; atheism; faith; religion; secularization

Hrčak ID:

104736

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/104736

Publication date:

5.7.2013.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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