Indifferentism
Indifferentism describes a permanently indifferent attitude towards decision-making issues . The indifferentist usually does not make a decision due to a lack of interest and leaves the question open. He is to be distinguished from the opportunist , who actually does not make a decision, not because of lack of interest, but because he hopes for a personal advantage from it.
A distinction is made between political , religious , philosophical and moral indifferentists.
The indifferentism in the religious area is of Pope Gregory XVI. described as follows:
"Pravam illam opinionem, quae improborum fraude ex omni parte percrebuit, qualibet fidei professione aeternam posse animae salutem comparari, si mores ad recti honestique normam exigantur"
"That wrong opinion, widely spread by the deception of the bad guys, that one can acquire eternal salvation with any creed, if one aligns one's way of life to the norm of what is right and morally good."
and strongly condemned in the encyclical Mirari vos .
Indifferentism finds its intensification in total indifferentism, the representatives of which are no longer of interest, since interest has become irrelevant to them.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lettres apostoliques de Pie IX, Grégoire XVI, Pie VII, encycliques, brefs, etc.: texte latin avec la traduction française , Mirari vos , pp. 210–211 (original text in Latin and translation into French).