Catholic teachings on indifferentism According to the
Catholic Church, absolute indifferentism results in a willingness to concede any position.
Restricted indifferentism Catholicism also opposes as "indifferentism" a spectrum of pragmatic ideas that admit the necessity of religion because of its positive influence on human life, but which hold that all religions are equally true. A classic advocate of this theory is
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who maintains, in his
Emile, that God looks only to the sincerity of intention, and that everybody can serve him by remaining in the religion in which they were raised, or by converting to any other that pleases them more (Emile, III). This position is sometimes held by
agnostics, on the grounds that it is impossible to attain certain religious knowledge, and that a God who has allowed such uncertainty will be pleased with whatever sincere form of worship he is offered. ==Kant's absolute indifferentism==