If a Soldier is willing to fight and die for your right to be
a religious dogmatist, he is also willing to fight and die for my right to live up to principles of decency, empathy and kindness that come not from fear of God but joy in living in peace with others and the love of a shared humanity.
Not exact matches
To understand this attitude we must go back to the last of his «Talks on Judaism» in which he contrasts the false desire for security of the
dogmatists of the law with the «holy insecurity» of the truly
religious man who does not divorce his action from his intention.
Secularists, about 14 percent of the population, are likely to describe themselves as «irreligious,» rather than «antireligious,» and they frequently view
religious adherents as
dogmatists.
Metaphysical believers and spiritual seekers affirm their spiritual identity and deny a
religious identity, while
dogmatists, including fundamentalists, institutionalists, moralists and neotraditionalists, affirm a
religious identity but deny that they have a spiritual identity.