Sentences with phrase «of dogmatic beliefs»

Gush Emunim denies the Palestinians their right out of a dogmatic belief that only the Jewish people are heirs to the promised land.

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.

All of them have killed because of their unrelenting, intolerant, dogmatic beliefs and bitterness about anyone who might have another point of view.

No one with a shred of self respect would willingly return to a dogmatic belief that requires, at its core, the negation of thoughtful questioning, the denigration of thinking, a prohibition against careful evaluation of beliefs and assumptions, and relegates those who honestly disagree with the doctrine and its conclusions to the status of a despised, damaged, and damned «other».

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.

Just because the claims of xians that god does exists is dogmatic, doesn't mean that anyone who doesn't follow that superstition can be said to be dogmatic, simply because of that lack of belief.

Religion is the dogmatic following of rituals and customs as the sole method of practicing your 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.

I know a lot of people who are very dogmatic about theological beliefs that may or may not be valid «private revelations.»

And yes, Jesus hated the dogmatic practice of religion as the sole expression of belief.

(This Lutheran Pastor believes that both the Assumption of Mary and the Immaculate Conception can be defended biblically, but they can not be made dogmatic beliefs necessary for salvation.)

All of mankind has benefited from Science, but Dogmatic Folks weaned on Religion refuse to accept anything that threatens beliefs.

He would not be sectarian or dogmatic, which is to say he would not be rigorous and thus exclusive on matters of religious belief.

Inevitably such a dialectical theology falls back upon a dogmatic and non-dialectical form of faith or belief, thereby foreclosing the possibility of reaching a coincidentia oppositorum.

Whether you want to admit it or not, Naturalism (that is, a belief that nature is the highest authority, or the divine per se) has become just as much of a dogmatic religion as the religions which Naturalists rail against.

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

The vast majority of religious persecution throughout history are precisely for dogmatic reasons: Religious persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group of individuals as a response to their religious beliefs or affiliations or lack thereof.

I tend to think that dogmatic and narrow approaches to belief and practice are somewhat immature, but «we» also long for the simplicity of black - white.

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.

Various dogmatic beliefs suddenly, on the advent of the faith - state, acquire a character of certainty, assume a new reality, become an object of faith.

It's not the rational dogmatic belief of post-Enlightenment Modernism cos that wasn't around then.

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 dialoguOF 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 dialoguof scripture and one another and when someone puts someone down or is dogmatic about another's beliefs it prevents dialogue.

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.

I'd say the latter part of the statement certainly applies almost exclusively to religion, but the first part could apply just as well to any dogmatic belief system, especially political.

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).

Born Agains (christians) are the most dogmatic of all, because it is the dogma itself that forms their belief system.

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.

The best I could come up with, and it is only speculation, not a dogmatic belief, is that we have been given the opportunity to get much of our purgatorial suffering over with this side of the grave.

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.

«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.»

This is certainly not the first time a stubborn dogmatic belief has grown out of a hypothesis that later turned out to be incorrect.

It seems to operate under the dogmatic belief that the human body is a machine, and that the problems that can cause one part of this machine to break down are very dissimilar from the ones that make another part vulnerable to malfunction.

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

Their Judas, Kichijiro, appears early and while the more dogmatic Garupe is tormented more by fleas than doubt, Rodrigues, horrified by what the locals are put through for their faith and God's total silence, begins a crisis of belief that runs the film.

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.

I think the science should be a process of continuous investigation, not a dogmatic belief.

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.

Judith >... established belief or doctrine held by a religion, ideology or any kind of organization: it is authoritative and not to be disputed, doubted, or diverged from, by the practioner or believers... The term «dogmatic» is often used disparagingly to refer to any belief that is held stubbornly.»

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.

If you're networking with someone who has dogmatic beliefs about resumes, I recommend saving a new copy of your resume and making the changes that will make it palatable to that person (whether it's reducing it to one page, or some other changes).