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The disregard for ideas and opinions other than one owns

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The disregard for ideas and opinions other than one owns

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Exclusivism is the belief that one's own group, religion, or ideology is superior to others and is the only true or valid one. It often leads to intolerance and discrimination towards those outside the group.

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They appeared to or they if fact followed all of the levitical laws to the letter. Jesus knew that doing so didn’t make them holy. They had no faith, and nothing they did had anything to do with loving God. Washing the outside of the cup as the inside is filthy…they did what they did to be seen by men who would boost their might ego!

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These terms have multiple meanings. However, here are "normative" answers.

Religious Pluralism typically is the belief that all religions are essentially "true" or at least valid. This is in contrast with Religious Exclusivism which believes that one religion is correct and the rest are wrong/invalid, and Religious Inclusivism where more than one may be true/valid... but not necessarily all of them. John Hick is probably the best known of the Religious Pluralists.

Interfaith Dialogue has to do with intentional discussion between different faiths/religions with the purpose of great mutual understanding. This is in contrast with Interfaith Apologetics (dialogue) or Polemics (monologue), where the purpose is to convert.

It is thought by some (John Hick, for example) that one must be a religious pluralist (relativizing one's own beliefs) to be effective at interfaith dialogue. However, others, such as Martin Buber, would argue that pluralism is not a requirement... just mutual respect.

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Many commands are written in the Bible in the masculine as opposed to using gender neutral terminology, which is something that is very modern and would not have worked for Bronze Age Tribesmen who were used to very masculine provisions. As the revelations were, they were as far shifted to the feminine as was possible at that point. However, a number of sins that are written in the masculine such as homosexuality, the various forms of incest, all of the ten commandments, the majority of compensation issues, and a large number of agricultural provisions. If a person were to hold that the genders written in the Bible were to be held in an exclusivist way, that is to say that male commands apply to men exclusively and female commands apply to women exclusively, women would not be prohibited from murder, theft, incest, adultery, and idol worship, among other things. The exclusivist way of interpretation makes no sense when taken to its logical conclusion.

As for this particular question, removing exclusivism from the Bible solves this problem. As a second note, the reason why this is written in the feminine is that a wife's association with a different man was much more likely to be an adulterous affair in the Ancient Period where women were supposed to stay at home than a man's association with another women which was much more in-passing.

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