Sentences with phrase «accepting dogma»

Religious faith means abandoning rational inquiry and accepting dogma as truth.

are you not just blindly accepting dogma that's been honed over centuries as truth when, in fact, it's just people's ideas about things they don't understand?

They truly embrace their ignorance out of some misguided devotion for fear they might waver in their commitment to the accepted dogma.

I will not accept your DOGMA andf DOCTRINE, however.

Teaching Creationism as a scientific theory teaches people to reject the value of evidence and accept dogma and tradition.

People of faith are prepared to accept a dogma.

To accept a dogma is to accept a gift of faith.

Churches and denominations, said Thurman, were established out of an ethos of exclusion: excluding those who do not believe specific dogma and excluding those who believe the accepted dogma but are of a particular socio - economic status or orientation.

We have a tendency to want and accept dogma.

Scientists don't blindly accept dogma as fact.

How balancing the fiscal budget became the accepted dogma of the Labour Party remains a mystery.

«The fact that fetal stem cell transplantation has not been very successful has been puzzling, especially given the widely accepted dogma that the immature fetal immune system can adapt to tolerate foreign substances,» said co-senior author Qizhi Tang, PhD, an assistant professor of transplant surgery and director of the UCSF Transplantation Research Lab.

Gage's lab showed that, contrary to accepted dogma, human beings are capable of growing new nerve cells throughout life.

I propose doing so, in challenging what he states as accepted dogma: that any time - series less than 25 or 30 years is meaningless.

If the catechism is to make any sense, you have to accept the dogmas or axioms of the faith, which I gather is your fundamental objection.

The notion that there is such a thing as progress of mankind as a whole was unknown prior to the seventeenth century, developed into a rather common opinion among the eighteenth - century hommes de lettres, and became an almost univerally accepted dogma in the nineteenth....

Not exact matches

However Christians demand that society accept the existence of their god as fact and validate their religious dogmas by incorporating them into civil law.

Obamas religion however is straight up christian and it won't really do much good to follow him around with a moving billboard that lists death tolls from christian persecution or other things about the dogma that people already know and either don't care or already accept.

Tenderness separated from the source of tenderness thus supports a «popular piety» that goes unexamined, a piety in which liberalism in its decline establishes dogmatic rights, rights that in an extreme» as presently in the arguments for abortion in the political sphere and for «popular culture» in the academic» become absolute dogma to be accepted and not examined.

Faith is the willing suspension of critical thinking in order that one might accept supernatural dogma as fact.

Need to test beliefs — A conviction that dogmas, ideologies and traditions, whether religious, political or social, must be weighed and tested by each individual and not simply accepted by faith.

«Knowledge» must come after faith... it is faith to accept religious dogma as knowledge.

'' Once you remove man's dogmas and get back to the teachings of Jesus Christ» Which is one of man's dogmas... Men wrote the bible.You haven't removed anything, you have accepted one of man's dogmas as if it were truth.

Marx's critique of religion can not be accepted or refuted merely on the basis of religious dogmas, for the dogmas themselves are to be evaluated on the basis of the «truth of man» and not outside it.

If I appear ignorant to you perhaps it's because I don't blindly follow the theocratic dogma, or accept the creative translations and cultural contexts that particular preachers try to pass off as the only «true» way to interpret the Bible.

Scientists individually may hold positions they wont yield on, but SCIENCE inherently accepts challenges to dogma

For centuries his theological teaching was accepted as official dogma by most Catholics.

Reasons given by Unitarian Universalists there for leaving other churches were along the line of «couldn't believe dogma, but wanted community» (ex-Methodist), «could not accept Jesus myth» (nominal Episcopalian), «my wife and I could not reconcile the Christian theology with a rational approach to life» (nominal Presbyterian).

Catholic modernists, believing that religion is a greater mystery than reason can comprehend, accepted the Enlightenment's intellectual indictments of religious dogma, traditional interpretations of scripture, and church history but held onto the church's ritual and symbols.

The difference is that forgiveness can be earned, depending on your dogma, by accepting that fact and embracing your deity.

It has become a dogma generally accepted that all that is found in these later writings is simply an outgrowth of the Vedas, the making explicit of what was therein implicit.

The path you personally chose to accept becomes your dogma through your life.

Is the church composed only of those who call themselves Christians, or followers of Jesus, and who accept a certain dogma; or does it consist of those who dwell in the Spirit, by whatever religion or label they identify themselves, those who live according to the principle of love for one's fellow man, and of recognizing the holy spirit within each?

Actually, Don the only people I've ever heard say that evolution requires «blind faith» to accept, are those who employ «blind faith» on a daily basis in order to accept religious dogma.

They just can't quite seem to accept that it is their dogma itself that is the source of this problem.

I could perhaps accept your position on maintaining faith if people could stick to the basic principle of believing in a god, but set aside the dogma of religion.

Not only to ask questions, but to question values, accepted norms, and dogma.

To accept the Bible as the authority of the Christian faith, therefore, is not to accept merely some static dogma that lays the dead hand of the past on the fresh life of the present.

The church gained in so far as it accepted a critical attitude to dogma.

Of course the question is whose doctrine / dogma does one accept and whose does one reject?

just sayin: Prof. Dawkins (not high priest of atheism since it's a lack of belief, hence no dogmas, creed, etc) would probably accept that Jesus was myth if presented the case from those biblical authors.

This dogmatic intolerance becomes all the more difficult for non-Catholics when it is associated not only with distinctly religious dogma, but also with elements of natural law that are not accepted as divinely sanctioned moral demands by most non-Catholics.

It is based upon the same science practices that have led to the gasoline engine, modern medicine, nuclear power, computers, etc. b. Although people believe in some aspects of scientific ideas that are conjectural, the extent that those will be fully accepted will be based upon testing and observations, not faith or dogma.

Oh sure, the rest of us add dogmas but no one forces me to accept them or else.

«Heresy is in the eye of the beholder... no one thinks that their beliefs are heretical, so denouncing another's theology as «heretical» is meaningless and purposeless, for what one judges to be «heresy» is dependant upon one's accepted church's dogma.

There will be time enough to steer the heart of the party later but, for the moment, we must accept that our leftwards shift has failed and that we now urgently need to move forwards - because time is a luxury that those suffering under this government's dogma - driven policies of cuts and austerity simply can not afford.

The dogma had been that bacteria can't communicate, so it was hard to accept that they could talk using two molecules, and even more difficult to imagine they could talk across species.

«A fundamental difference between religious and scientific thought is that the received beliefs in religion are ultimately based on revelations or pronouncements, usually by some long - dead prophet or priest... Dogma is interpreted by a caste of priests and is accepted by the multitude on faith or under duress.»

Even though Hayflick's discoveries went against accepted scientific dogma — «I was the first one to show that aging had its origins inside the cell,» he now says — they ultimately sparked an explosion in the study of aging.

«This dogma has been so accepted that nobody has looked for them since the 1950s,» Tilly says.