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/^t/Recent years have witnessed a growing tendency to renounce one's spiritual beliefs. While in the past religion was the force shaping the lives of individuals and nations, nowadays it is treated more and more often with a distance, with indifference, becoming a mere formality in people's lives. Many former churchgoers switch to other religions or become the atheists. The lack of need for spiritual beliefs is common reaction to present socio-economic situation, as well as to the development of philosophical and scientific thought. The phenomenon has various consequences of moral, personal, philosophical nature.