Sentences with phrase «dogmatic belief in»

Lewis even claims that «dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery» (Abolition, p. 46).

It is a tragedy that so many of our leaders today (and all of those ignorant fools who elect them on the basis of their religious beliefs) are guided by their brainwashed, dogmatic belief in what amounts to no more than a very elaborate story of Santa Claus.

Not exact matches

You may see the evidence of God in many places - not your dogmatic beliefs.

Compare that to the dogmatic stance of religion — a phony belief system that starts and end with unproven manmade tribal myths, not open to true debate, and that only changes in order to maintain power over the gullible.

Those who are dogmatic in their religious beliefs are criticized for being narrow minded, and ironically you are of similar mind.

I think Bobby Henderson said it best in the Gospel of the FSM, p. 100, «Born Agains are the most dogmatic of all, because it is the dogma itself that forms their belief system.

It seems to me that the terms «dogmatic» and «faith» are fairly synonymous in that they describe holding beliefs regardless of lack of evidence supporting such a belief.

My rejection of religion is a thorough one, borne of my own disinterest in organized belief systems, my distrust of dogmatic thinking and those who prefer it, and my own unwillingness to put faith in ancient tribal myths.

Did you ever think about how the revelations from god always seem to come when their power is threatened or if they are in the society that threatens its dogmatic beliefs..

But from the perspective given in faith as articulated in dogmatics, the Christian thinker must undertake to unmask the errors of hostile beliefs.

The Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (Gaudium et Spes) calls for openness, yet the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium) strongly affirms traditionally held beliefs concerning the Church's structure and authority.

They still practice a belief in a god, and practice a dogmatic doctrine.

Dogmatic belief, that is, a system of ideas that demand to not be challenged — how can you not see the harm in that?

The rigid dogmatic formulation of Trinitarian belief in The One God, is a stumbling block among Moslems.

If, as I recently argued in the Century («The Suffering God: The Rise of a New Orthodoxy,» April 16), belief in the suffering of God is the most basic revolutionary development of 20th - century theology, then Paul Tillich and others were wrong in contending that, in his movement from Romans to the Dogmatics, Barth went from a revolutionary to a conservative stance.

In the third lecture we are shown what Christians did with that original belief, why they constructed impressive but perplexing dogmatic formulations, and what relation these credal structures have to the faith by which the Christian community actually lives.

WHERE IS THE LOVE OF GOD IN ALL THIS??? This is an open forum, an invitation to debate... it isn't a place for name calling, or put downs... it isn't a place for closed mindedness... its a place to exchange ideas, and perhaps to come to a greater understanding of scripture and one another and when someone puts someone down or is dogmatic about another's beliefs it prevents dialogue.

This confusion of symbols in the religious observance at the time of death, incidentally observed even by families of little religious faith, may indicate that belief in the deathlessness of mortal humans is not taken too seriously in strict dogmatic terms.

I often feel more spiritually «connected» to people of faith in other Religious Traditions than I do to those whose Christian dogmatic beliefs that I share.

Dogmatic in belief, strict in behavior, refusing to accommodate, they successfully carry out the indispensable function of religion: to explain the meaning of life in ultimate terms.

I would consider myself dogmatic and unyeilding in my belief [s], but I am quite joyful within my environment and within myself.

«That meddlesome regulation encouraging healthcare workers to obstruct needed treatment considered offensive,» Barbara Coombs Lee, the head of Compassion and Choices, railed on her blog, «allows ideologues in health care to place their own dogmatic beliefs above all.»

fishon: I guess when I say dogmatic, I mean those individuals who are not only unyielding in their beliefs, but who will shame you, condemn you, and just about let you know what a worthless individual you are if you don't share their beliefs to the tee.

But along those same lines, the followers of those diets are just as dogmatic in their beliefs as those on this vegan site.

Based on true events, this gripping period piece convincingly recreates a particularly dark pass in modern history, while evoking the plight of every innocent caught in the crossfire between rampaging armies and dogmatic beliefs.

Their dogmatic belief that poverty is the root cause of educational underachievement is a cop - out in an age in which there are great examples of schools, traditional, charter and private, who are helping kids reach brighter futures.

He was keen to emphasise the time constraints that the committee was operating under and also the fact that several members of the committee are utterly convinced of the CAGW case, although he also said he thought that they were not dogmatic in their beliefs.

Dogma is in the eye of the beholder: both the person that holds the belief and is intolerant of dissent, and in the eyes of the dissenter, who perceives dogmatic intolerance.

His intensely dogmatic climate writing and rage for justice stems in part from his religious beliefs about nature, and his personal conviction that American «hyper - individualism» and consumerism corrupt both the environment and humanity, exemplified by fossil fuels, industrial civilization and free market capitalism.

About the only people who still claim to believe in anthropogenic global warming seem to be those who have turned it into a their new belief system, the easily bullshitted ignorant, or those who stand to make big money on it via carbon trading schemes or getting grant money to study improved ways to BS the ignorant and those who are dogmatic about global warming.

Similar to the current «expert» climate / energy policies being pushed on the unsuspecting citizens of multiple countries, the expert health policies pushed on the masses for the last 50 + years have been based on a dogmatic, consensus belief in a questionable hypothesis.

The Galileo Movement says it honours Galileo's achievement in replacing religious doctrine with «solid observable data» and standing up to «entrenched, dogmatic religious and state beliefs suppressing the truth».