You may see the evidence of God in many places - not
your dogmatic beliefs.
All of them have killed because of their unrelenting, intolerant,
dogmatic beliefs and bitterness about anyone who might have another point of view.
Churches and
dogmatic beliefs are often incompatible, but religion should not.
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».
You boiled yourself into softness to free me from a ridiculous and
dogmatic belief system.
(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.)
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..
mont: «So when Nah responds that a logical, well thought out statement is an «ad hominem» based on his own mindless medieval
dogmatic beliefs, he is the one actually committing the «ad hominem»»
On the other hand, the Moravians, amongst whom he had grown up, emphasized personal religious experience, but combined it with a narrow
dogmatic belief.
I've this was a good book for someone like me, who does not have very
dogmatic beliefs but still wants to nurture a spiritual side.
The ridiculous myth that morality can only come from
a dogmatic belief system has been refuted numerous times throughout history.
Dogmatic belief, that is, a system of ideas that demand to not be challenged — how can you not see the harm in that?
Theology /
dogmatic belief is faith seeking understanding, it is not faith.
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.
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).
Gush Emunim denies the Palestinians their right out of
a dogmatic belief that only the Jewish people are heirs to the promised land.
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.
«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.
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.
Dogmatic belief is static.
I think the science should be a process of continuous investigation, not
a dogmatic belief.
Yes hunter, we are all quite well acquainted with
your dogmatic beliefs on how awful climate scientists are.
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).
Not exact matches
Seriously, I have met many pagans that were
dogmatic, close minded and exclusionary to my
beliefs because they erroneously thought they were the same as what they erroneously thought Satanists are.
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 three are
dogmatic absolutists with absolute certainty that their
beliefs are infallible.
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.
When someone is presented with evidence disproving something yet they hold onto that
belief despite the evidence, that is being
dogmatic.
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.
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.
I am not
dogmatic about my
belief on this subject.
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.