Published : 2021-07-12

Ethical Neutrality of the State – Ideal or Fiction?

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Between the aspirations to create a religious state and the attitudes of combating all manifestations of religiosity in social life, there is sometimes a proposition of neutrality in worldview issues, including moral norms. Can the state and its institutions really maintain such neutrality? What is the Church's attitude to such proposals? The article is an attempt to answer these questions. It is based on the analysis of the phenomenon of neutrality itself, its forms and the true intentions of its supporters. These analyzes prove that neutrality is an ambivalent phenomenon and its acceptance by the Church depends on many conditions.

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ethical neutrality, state-Church relations, social morality



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Roczniki Teologiczne · ISSN 2353-7272 | eISSN 2543-5973 · DOI: 10.18290/rt
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