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How to use the word DOGMA in a Sentence?

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Ignorance is the dogma of darkness ''but the annexation of a good faculty allowing light on the path. French Version L'ignorance est le dogme de l'obscurité'' mais l'annexion d'une bonne faculté permettant la lumière sur le sentier.

Leger Merlin Figama

added by MerlinFigamaWorshipper
9 months ago

People who believe that housing is bad, that crime is always up, they believe that based on their world view and dogma and not on facts, all we can do is provide unbiased, carefully-constructed data. At the end of the day, there are some people who don’t care about the facts.

George Tita

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My quarrel isn’t with people who think diversity, equity and inclusion are good things, my argument and the argument of the NAS is turning them into dogma and then using them to vet faculty members, graduate students, undergraduate students – creating aversive environment in which you feel you have to swear fealty to a particular creed. I think that’s wrong.

Steve Balch

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The dogma of religion is love, and love is obedience to creationism.

Merlin Figama Worshipper

added by legerfig
1 year ago

Life is a dogma and a fight for the dogma.

Proverb

added by anonymous
3 years ago

The whole point of the liberal revolution that gave rise to the 1960’s was to free us from somebody else’s dogma, but now the same people…are striving to impose on others a secularized religion…disguising it behind innocuous labels like ‘diversity training’ and ‘respect for difference.

Richard Bernstein

added by Normando
4 years ago

In reading these websites, the information gathered should be used, not as dogma, but as the foundation for a more highly informed one-on-one discussion with your doctor at your next visit, and if it's been a while, reading these websites will hopefully remind diabetic patients of the importance of regular screening exams for diabetic retinopathy.

Christopher Starr

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Oxybenzone is really toxic to the juvenile form of corals, and that's consistent with the dogma of toxicology that juveniles are usually a thousand times more sensitive to the toxic effects of a chemical than a parent.

Craig Downs

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The dogma lives loudly within you.

Dianne Feinstein

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The time has come over Brexit, really, for economic reality and common sense to prevail over political dogma and wishful thinking.

Peter Mandelson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Zika has put humanity in crisis and if it worsens it will force the Church to make a decision on saving human life versus saving its own dogma ... There is no easy answer, there really is nothing in canon law to act as a guide, zika is putting at risk the most innocent - unborn children - so it would be entirely adequate that the Church shift its position on contraceptives for this case.

Fernando Altemeyer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'm feeling like I live somewhere in the '60s, talking about contraception and sometimes I can imagine deleting the word 'HIV' and saying 'unwanted pregnancy,' i think there is a lot of what's called 'slut shaming' in the Truvada story, but it's the exact analogy of what happened in the '60s with birth control. I mean, we've been living 30 years with the dogma that says the only way to be safe -- to prevent HIV infection -- is using condoms or abstinence.

Demetre Daskalakis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Daesh has a dogma, it can attack all parties at the same time, and one cannot expect to see logic in what it does.

Ibrahim Freihat

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think that is what he should be doing, reaching out to the people who really need him. I think he is more about living by like Jesus than focusing on dogma, i think it's a great example for priests, for all of us.

Mildred Nawa

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'm a person who has a deep and abiding faith and relationship with God, but I'm not really into a lot of religious dogma and rituals -- 'you can't do that, and you can't do this.' I don't believe in that. I believe you have to have a deep and abiding faith in God.

Ben Carson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I am leaving no sermon, no dogma, nor am I leaving as my legacy any commandment that is frozen in time or cast in stone,” he said shortly before his death. 'Concepts of well-being for countries, for peoples and for individuals are changing. In such a world, to argue for rules that never change would be to deny the reality found in scientific knowledge and reasoned judgment.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian"

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatest, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh

added by anonymous
13 years ago

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Anais Nin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.

Bertrand Russell

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.

Deepak Chopra

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The common dogma of fundamentalists is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity.

G Gaia

added by anonymous
14 years ago

My Karma ran over your dogma.

Unknown

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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