Thanks to people like Dawkins, in the past 10 years, Atheism has exploded (Though, I, Like Dawkins, suspect it has not grown at all, merely been exposed) and we will soon see a breakdown of the power
of religious dogma in these three areas (education, politics and daily life).
In the long term,
rejection of religious dogma as it pertains to basic society's needs will prevail, and the zealots touting their own religion will be relegated to their proper place.
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.
The difference is that the supernatural
claims of religious dogma are things which can not ever be proven true outside of the context which I have already mentioned, which is the context of belief.
When particular elements in the traditional teaching about the nature of things have been challenged by demonstrable scientific findings, the whole
structure of religious dogma has been called into question.
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.
Because creation ostensibly ended with the biblical era, we who follow are not considered a part of the ongoing creative process, but are to function as the
custodians of religious dogma and ritual, oblivious of Christ's words, «You have a fine way of rejecting the commandments of God, in order to keep your tradition!»
But instead of attending more closely to these circumstances in order to think seriously about the changing place and politics of free speech in contemporary India, its proponents have lapsed into an anachronistic narrative about circumscribing the
reach of religious dogma in social life.
«Calling into question
centuries of religious dogma and commonly held beliefs, the Lord Our God, Creator and Supreme Ruler of the Universe, admitted Tuesday that in actuality it is «extremely rare» for Him to ever forgive an individual.»
Freedom of religion, according to the Court, was a highly personal and subjective experience, and the state should not be the
arbiter of religious dogma.
The focus of my work is teaching spiritual freedom and spirituality from the perspective of the Divine Feminine as I came to embrace my own spiritual gifts
outside of religious dogma.
People do not need the God of Abraham to live a moral life, no more than the millions of religious zealots who use their
interpretation of religious dogma to dominate, subjugate and kill other human beings.
Atheism for me is simply the rejection
of religious dogma, and man's conjecture about gods and goddesses.