Definition of "indifferentism" [in•dif•fer•ent•ism]

• The belief that all religions are of equal validity. (noun)

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• "Indifferentism is to be distinguished from political indifferentism, which is applied to the policy of a state that treats all the religions within its borders as being on an equal footing before the law of the country."
• "The transference of this destructive scepticism to the domain of religion breeds religious indifferentism, which is no less unreasonable and immoral, since it also sins against the sacredness of truth."
• "Rigorism and laxism have each had their adherents; in this age of relativism and its religious correlate, "indifferentism," 2 seems to have many adherents among Catholics."