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(2003) Science and culture, Dordrecht, Springer.
How can religion be respectfully tolerant despite its claim that its doctrine is perfect? The brief answer is, the admission of any uncertainty on any aspect of religion suffices to justify tolerance. A faith can be as democratic as the faithful wish; only fundamentalism, so-called, is hard to reconcile with democracy.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-2946-8_8
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Agassi, J. (2003). Faith in the open society: the end of hermeneutics, in Science and culture, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 83-96.