Quotes about Pluralism

Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

Unity has never meant uniformity.

People are not relativistic when it comes to matters of science, engineering, and technology; rather, they are relativistic and pluralistic in matters of religion and ethics." 37 In short, they apply their postmodern skepticism selectively

Popper says that the best way out of the problem of having unconscious points of view is to state clearly one's view and to recognize that there are also other points of view.

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other

Christ has not come with a blueprint for political arrangements; many kinds of political arrangements are compatible with the Christian faith, from monarchy to democracy. But in a pluralistic context, Christ's command "in everything do to others as you would have them do to you" (Matt. 7:12) entails that Christians grant to other religious communities the same religious and political freedoms that they claim for themselves.

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.

If two men or two women can marry, then there is no way a court could deny three men and two women or any combination thereof.

It is an interesting observation on today's religious climate that many people now get every bit as steamed up about insisting that 'all religions are just the same' as the older dogmaticians did about insisting on particular formulations and interpretations. The dogma that all dogmas are wrong, the monolithic insistence that all monolithic systems are to be rejected, has taken hold of the popular imagination at a level far beyond rational or logical discourse.

As a Christian, I am not the least bit offended by the beliefs of Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, and so forth. In fact, I am delighted to know that they believe in something that is more likely to make them into a reasonable human being, as long as they don't allow the religion to be distorted by those seeking power and wealth.