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Dogma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dogma (the plural is either dogmata or dogmas) is the established belief or doctrine held by a religion, ideology or any kind of organization to be authoritative and not to be disputed or doubted. Rejection of dogma is considered heresy in certain religions, and may lead to expulsion from the religious group, although in the Christian Gospels this is not done rashly (e.g. Dogmas are thought to be anathema to science and scientific analysis, though some small groups may argue that the scientific method itself is somewhat dogmatic. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dogma   (616 words)

Pseudo-secularism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The state's participation in religious rituals and symbolism, such as during the inauguration ceremonies, are not considered as at odds with secularism. Many political parties in India have been accused of appeasing the minority groups, which are their vote banks, by putting up candidates who have the same religion as the majority of the voters in a constituency, ensuring the voters special consideration after the candidate wins the election. Increasing pressure from religious groups in the years 2000-2005 has led to the introduction of new laws promoting the interests of religious groups, such as a law banning incitement to religious hatred – a law which fails to protect other minorities (for example, homosexuals) from incitement to hatred. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pseudo-secularism   (1234 words)

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Dogma But according to a long-standing usage a dogma is now understood to be a truth appertaining to faith or morals, revealed by God, transmitted from the Apostles in the Scriptures or by tradition, and proposed by the Church for the acceptance of the faithful. It is a dogma of faith that the Church is infallible in defining these two classes of revealed truths; and the deliberate denial of one of these dogmas certainly involves the sin of heresy. Dogmas can be (1) general or special; (2) material or formal; (3) pure or mixed; (4) symbolic or non-symbolic; (5) and they can differ according to their various degrees of necessity. www.newadvent.org /cathen/05089a.htm   (2520 words)

Truth and Criticism - Alfred North Whitehead - 1926 Religious truth must be developed from knowledge acquired when our ordinary senses and intellectual operations are at their highest pitch of discipline. Every true dogma which formulates with some adequacy the facts of a complex religious experience is fundamental for the individual in question and he disregards it at his peril. Accordingly, though dogmas have their measure of truth, which is unalterable, in their precise forms they are narrow, limitative, and alterable: in effect untrue, when carried over beyond the proper scope of their utility. www.mountainman.com.au /whiteh_4.htm   (5966 words)

WHAT I BELIEVE I fully endorse this view and feel that a dogma negates the very spirit of quest which is inculcated by the inner urge to know the truth. Dogmas do lead to a sense of mental security for many but it brings about total stagnation in their life. The scholars or educated orthodox believers defend religious dogmas not because of inner conviction but more because of either laziness of mind or some interests associated with it. andromeda.rutgers.edu /~rtavakol/engineer/belief.htm   (3516 words)

The Religious-Secular Divide in Israeli Politics Israelis are divided between the religious (ultraorthodox and modern Orthodox) on the one hand and the secularist on the other, with many in the middle not defined as either. Religious Zionism, which served as a bond between the two camps, by changing its attitudes on foreign policy and adopting some of the maxims of ultraorthodoxy, abandoned its traditional role of a bridge between traditionalism and modernity. Religious issues were to emerge as a major factor in Israel-Diaspora relations in 1988 when the "Who is a Jew?" question, perhaps better defined as, "Who is a rabbi?" burst forth. www.mepc.org /journal_vol6/9906_sandler.asp   (4498 words)

20th WCP: Truth and Religion Reconsidered: An Analytical Approach One is a deteriorated sensibility towards religious aspects of life in general and recognition of positive facets in the cultural plurality of religions. The believers, especially those in the main religious traditions, attribute truth to their religious statements and this truth is for them so important that they choose rather to die than to deny it. religious statements (dogmas as the teaching of the church) are authoritatively (by the church) declared true on the basis of strict religious argumentation. www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Reli/ReliBron.htm   (5816 words)

Dogma (4) Symbolic Dogmas contained in the symbols or creeds of the Church are called symbolic; the remainder are non-symbolic. There is considerable hostility, in modem times, to dogmatic religion when considered as a body of truths defined by the Church, and still more when considered as defined by the pope. But, it is objected, dogma checks investigation, antagonizes independence of thought, and makes scientific theology impossible. www.sjnohio.com /Dogma.htm   (2525 words)

Jewish Encyclopedia - Articles of Faith And the same necessity arises wh en the Church or religious fellowship is torn by internal heresies. The aim of teaching was to convey a knowledge of he Law, obedience to which manifested the acceptance of the underlying re ligious principes; namely, the existence of God and the holiness of Israel as the people of his covenant. Underlying the practise of the Law was assuredly the recognition of certain fundamental and decisive religious principles culminating in the belief in God and revelation, and li kewise in the doctrine of retributive divine justice. www.sacred-texts.com /jud/aof.htm   (3039 words)

Nigeriaworld Feature Article (African crisis: The impact of religious and political extremism)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) Take religious dogmas and dirty politics away from the equation, and you would have substantially taken away fanatic thinking and its havoc on the society. Religious and political beliefs continue to inform the decisions of many Africans who thereby relegate morality and conscience to the background. Leaders who use their political platform or religious pulpit as a stage to propagate hate and violence have to do a quick rethink of their roles in life. nigeriaworld.com /feature/publication/mbamara/030102.html   (1346 words)

[No title] The body of the Christ must under all circumstances have been genetically manipulated so that the Earthly civilizations religious heritage, amongst other things, had been removed from the genetic code, as not to be a subconscious hindrance for his work. Seen from the viewpoint of the Spacepeople the situation with regards to the religious dogmas is despairing. A spreading of Pope based dogma beliefs are expected in the earlier Soviet Union and also a Muslim dogma belief. members.fortunecity.com /galactic4/th27te.txt   (4194 words)

Will Organized Religion Survive in the New Millennium: a New Renaissance Article At the end the religious leaders were embracing one another and all were singing and dancing together to the spiritual music of different traditions. Examples of some religious dogmas are the ideas that we are the chosen people of God and others are not, that ours is the only way, that we are going to heaven and everyone else is going to hell, that only our holy book is the word of God. Fear of religious violence is a constant part of life amongst Buddhists and Hindus in Sri Lanka, amongst Christians and Muslims in Sudan, East Timor and the southern Philippines, between Christians and Protestants in Northern Ireland and between Sunni and Shiite Muslims of Iran and Iraq. www.ru.org /93-religion.htm   (1867 words)

Benjamin F. Underwood: The Practical Separation of Church and State (1876) Here, as in other countries, there is a large class in whose education the principles of morality have been subordinated to the dogmas of theology, and whose devotion to their religion, in consequence, is far stronger than their sense of justice, or their understanding of its requirements in their relations with their fellow men. Every religious society has a right to determine for itself the time for these exercises, and the objects proper to them, according to its own Peculiar tenets; and this right can never be safer than in their own hands, where the Constitution has deposited it. Those portions of a religious system or book revelation which are shown to be false, or which come to be repudiated by the enlightened moral sense of the age, are either absolutely ignored or twisted out of their obvious and natural meaning. members.tripod.com /~candst/uwood.htm   (3303 words)

Rising Above Religious Differences The social desirability and value of religious freedom is as equally valid as the existence of any other form of freedom. It must first of all be fully recognized that religious freedom encompasses not only the freedom to believe, but the freedom not to believe, and the freedom to express uncertainty as well. A resurgence of religious activity and freedom within the Communist countries could be ironically pointing to the fact that Communism may have too hastily thrown out the religious baby with the economic bath water. afgen.com /feudal1.html   (501 words)

Wolfpack Theology Even an atheist is a devoutly religious creature in the final estimation for he must make the same leaps of faith common to any true believer in a religious dogma. While logically irrational in light of the convoluted history of man with his temporal city states, fiefdoms and nation states, patriotism remains a powerful religious dogma as strong in the modern world as it was in the ancient one. The more ancient dogmas are challenged, the harder man fights to hold onto them, often to the point of ignoring the obvious and living in denial that causes harm to himself and others. www.talltalestogo.net /EssayWolfpack.htm   (3320 words)

Beyond Religion As We Know It - Notebooks of Paul Brunton The mold into which the religious faith and mystical ideology of the postwar world will flow will not be shaped by the desires of the spiritual guides who cling closely to the half-moribund institutions and obsolete dogmas of the prewar world. There are young people today who have strong religious feelings, but who do not find in the traditional forms of religion sufficient satisfaction, because they do not find that they can carry it fully into their activities in the world and because they have intellectual difficulties in reconciling it with the knowledge of science. A further supposition for the existence of this religious custom is that God himself, being depicted with three lines of ash on his forehead, is brought to mind by the custom when followed, as recommended, by ordinary laymen, and thus they are better strengthened to bear their troubles. wisdomsgoldenrod.org /notebooks/17/7   (9932 words)

Dr. Aidar Youzeev "Tatar religious reformation" We are using the broad meaning of the European term "religious reformation" (protestantism) in reference to similiar religious process in the Muslim world in general and in Tatar region in particular. The beginning of Tatar religious reformation is connected with the names of Abdurrahman Utize-Imiani (1754-1834) and Abdannasir Kursavi (1776-1812) and its subsequent development involving its most prominent reformer of the XIX century Shihabbaddin Marjani (1818-1889). The main goal of the Tatar religious reformation in Kazan area in the XVIII-XIX centuries was the accommodation of religious dogmas within scientific truths, and the elimination of the magical elements (especially in kalam - speculative theology and sufism mystic Islam). www.kcn.ru /tat_ru/religion/islam/tatarstan/reformation.htm   (1453 words)

What Buddhists Believe - Religion in a Scientific Age Many basic religious concepts are crumbling under the pressure of modern science and are no longer acceptable to the intellectual and the well-informed man. No longer is it possible to assert truth derived merely through theological speculations or based on the authority of religious scriptures in isolation to scientific consideration. Religious experience is not something which can be understood by conducting experiments in a test-tube or examined under a microscope. Buddhism is the bridge between religious and scientific thoughts by stimulating man to discover the latent potentialities within himself and his environment. www.buddhanet.net /budsas/ebud/whatbudbeliev/269.htm   (2148 words)

Scientific Method in Religious Practice - ALL THINGS SPIRITUAL But while in a physical experiment the object of research is a phenomenon of the material world which is studied by means of some material instrument, in religious practice the object of study is in non-material worlds, while as the scientific instrument the experimentalist-practician uses his soul, consciousness. Rituals represent the most primitive stage of religious practice that does not aim at serious positive transformation of a person, of his spiritual state. The only benefit of religious rituals is strengthening of the faith in the existence of God, which creates a foundation for further advancement. www.allspiritual.com /ubb/Forum1/HTML/000207.html   (854 words)

Religious Persecution in America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) This is, of course, one of the most tragic inconsistencies of the fallen nature of man. No sooner had the early American colonists stepped on to the shores of this great land, than they forced their fellow immigrants to conform to their religious dogmas. The proper object of government is to protect all persons in the enjoyment of their civil as well as religious rights, and not to determine for any whether they shall esteem one day above another, or esteem all days alike holy. Here is a "religious" man, who admits that the Seventh-day Adventists are "generally good citizens" and are "a very devout and respectable people." However, he proposes to bring about certain conditions that would drive these "devout and respectable people" away from the State entirely, just to satisfy the religious bigotry of those in his county. www.temcat.com /Liberty/persecution.htm   (2380 words)

Augustine. Theology, meaning of the sacrifice and cross. Washed in the blood of the lamb? Why did Christ die? His violations of religious dogma and carrying on the earlier traditions of Biblical critique practiced by the former Jewish prophets did not end with his violations and condemnations of cleanliness and food laws. Paul was himself one of the religious authorities who persecuted Christ and the early church, arresting and whipping the members of the church, fervent and zealous for his ancestral dogmas, until he experienced a conversion experience. The church has been notorious throughout history for being the refuge of dogmatics and their dogmas, and it is not surprising that by leaving behind their radical roots throughout history the church became famous for its crucifixions, its witch hunts and persecution of 'heretics' and 'blasphemers'. www.awitness.org /essays/augcruc.html   (5007 words)

Religious Fanaticism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) It is their religious duty, they believe, to avenge the infidels for their 'crusade' against Islam. As long as a fundamentalist group believes something is their religious obligation, then the first casualty is rationality and reasoning. It appears that we have to live and learn to live with this religious menace since "the greatest superstition of all is to expect fundamentalists to heed to good sense". www.data-entry-bpo.com /religious-fanaticism.html   (197 words)

Articles of Faith Under the necessity of combating heresies of various degrees of perilousness and of stubborn insistence, the Church­ and Islam, were forced to define and officially limit their respective theological concepts. The aim of teaching was to convey a knowledge of the Law, obedience to which manifested the acceptance of the underlying religious principles; namely, the existence of God and the holiness of Israel as the people of his covenant. Underlying the practise of the Law was assuredly the recognition of certain fundamental and decisive religious principles culminating in the belief in God and revelation, and likewise in the doctrine of retributive divine justice. www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Judaism/articles_of_faith.html   (2996 words)

The Ayn Rand Institute: Email - The Faith-Based Attack on Rational Government In the Dark Ages, a prosecutor would submerge the defendant's arms in boiling water, and if the scalded flesh became infected, that was taken as a sign of God's disfavor, mandating a guilty verdict. Since faith entails overriding reason in favor of emotion, religious disputes are necessarily unresolvable through rational persuasion, leaving force as the only weapon against heretics and infidels. Once judges begin accepting religious feelings as valid decisional factors, the secular principle cannot survive, and the disintegration of society into sectarian strife must soon follow. www.aynrand.org /site/MessageViewer?em_id=11563.0&dlv_id=10101&JServSessionIdr006=w8nv899hn1.app1a   (1020 words)

Jewish Articles of Faith The admission of the neophyte hinges upon the profession and the acceptance of his part of the belief, and that there may be no uncertainty about what is essential and what non-essential, it is incumbent on the proper authorities to determine and promulgate the cardinal tenets in a form that will facilitate repetition and memorizing. Underlying the practice of the Law was assuredly the recognition of certain fundamental and decisive religious principles culminating in the belief in God and revelation, and likewise in the doctrine of retributive divine justice. The modicum of truth in his theory is that throughout Biblical Judaism, as in fact throughout all later phases of Jewish religious thinking and practice, this doctrinal element remains always in solution. mb-soft.com /believe/txh/jewbelie.htm   (3893 words)

Al-Serat: Religious Education of the Younger Generation To me it seems that religious knowledge, in the right sense of the word, as distinct and distinguished from religious jingoism, can be imparted only to children who have reached such age. The topic of religious education cannot be discussed without mentioning the role of Majalis-e-Imam Husain which have acquired the status of a religious institution in our society. It is these intellectual elites who can really mould and influence the future generations of our people and so it is our religious duty to cater for their spiritual needs and to ensure that they get ample opportunity to challenge all assertions and aver- ments made in the course of the perorations. al-islam.org /al-serat/education.htm   (1597 words)

The Hindu : Karnataka / Hubli News : Working class caught up in religious dogmas: expert He noted that the Indian working class, instead of joining class struggles, had got caught up in the vortex of religious dogmas. The need of the hour was to lead revolutionary struggles against neo-imperialist forces and usher in a communist State based on Marxian ideology, Mr. D.V. Shirali, retired Director of the Research Cell, Reserve Bank of India, said a struggle should be launched against religious establishments. www.hindu.com /2004/05/20/stories/2004052005120300.htm   (462 words)

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