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Is there a value in religious pluralism?

By Alliance Alert

Christopher O. Tollefson writing at The Witherspoon Institute's Public Discourse: "The ECHR statement suggests that democracy is a necessary condition for pluralism, but this seems unlikely. Far more plausible is the claim that the existence of democratic society is sufficient for a high degree of pluralism. The freedoms that liberal democracy brings inevitably lead to differences and disagreements, even between people uprightly striving to seek the truth. What John Rawls called the ?burdens of judgment? make it reasonable to expect that when a question is not solved by empirical evidence, liberty of belief will result in difference of judgment. So some degree of pluralism does indeed seem to be a natural result of liberal freedoms."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on June 12, 2009 (boomark / email).