ABSTRACT
The unconscious propensity for passive acceptance of structured power within an authoritarian system cannot be without negative consequences on the moral and social behaviour of people.
The daily practices produced in the Constantinian area, like “the individual confession of sins”, unknown to Jesus’ early followers, generate the annihilation of personal responsibility and encourages hypocrisy and moral laxity.
The intellectual and moral dullness has consigned the Catholic and Orthodox peoples to the margins of history as far as political life was concerned. With respect to economic life, it is not by exalting poverty that peoples achieve growth, but spirit of enterprise, producing both goods and jobs. Yet to undertake means to innovate, and innovating involves doubting what is commonly accepted: a state of mind condemned in the Constantinian area.
Another social disease characterizes this area: anti-Semitism, infecting in the course of time also the surrounding Protestant world. From the fourth century onward, eleven synods and four councils banned Jews from the civil consortium as the “Deicide People”.
Another peculiar consequence in this area is male chauvinism, which is evidenced not only by women’s exclusion from ecclesiastical offices, but from the Churches insisting that the woman’s primary task is to be a wife and mother, a premise which has locked the gender within male-constructed philosophies and practices, perpetuating the image of male superiority within the Collective Unconscious.
