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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The belief that all religions are of equal validity.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Systematic indifference; avoidance of choice or preference; specifically, the principle that differences of religious belief are essentially unimportant; adiaphorism.
- noun In metaphysics, the doctrine of absolute identity; the doctrine that to be in idea or thought and to exist are one and the same thing. See
absolute identity , under absolute.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun State of indifference; lack of interest or earnestness; especially, a systematic apathy regarding what is true or false in religion or philosophy; agnosticism.
- noun (Metaph.) Same as
Identism . - noun (R. C. Ch.) A heresy consisting in an unconcern for any particular creed, provided the morals be right and good.
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- noun The doctrine that all
religions are equallyvalid
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Examples
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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.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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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 Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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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.
Archive 2007-05-01 Mike L 2007
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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.
Salvation at the golden mean Mike L 2007
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It arose rather from the relaxation of dogmatic belief, the latitudinarianism, the indifferentism which is a notable sign of those times, and which infected Catholics as well as Protestants throughout Europe.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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And do you, -- (for I am still addressing myself to the younger men,) -- learn to put away from your souls that vile indifferentism which is becoming the curse of this shallow and unlearned age.
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Partly, because of the indifferentism which is everywhere so prevalent.
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It is this silence - 'indifferentism' as Ambedkar had prophetically termed the caste Hindu / liberal attitude to anti-caste concerns - that continues to echo for Badhal … When only Dalits are forced to bear the burden of articulating Dalit issues they are dubbed sectarian; the casual betrayal of Dalits by the rest of society passes for secularism.
Kafila 2009
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The quasi-Aristotelean, empiricist moral "indifferentism" of Paolo Sarpi, as identified in an applied form by Adam Smith in his A.D.
LaRouche's Latest 2009
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"indifferentism" of the imperial Government, and forbade the faithful of those provinces to take the oath of allegiance to Napoleon or accept any offices from him.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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