[1] Political indifferentism describes 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.
[3] However, in Catholic usage, religious indifference is a term for "deny[ing] that it is the duty of man to worship God by believing and practicing the one true religion".
Schools Relations with: According to the Catholic Church, absolute indifferentism results in a willingness to concede any position.
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.
Catholicism criticizes Protestantism specifically for this sort of limited indifferentism, describing many Protestant denominations as latitudinarians who do not claim any particular fidelity to the gospel and who maintain that all forms of worship may be equally effective for the purpose of building a closer union with God.