http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?fid4ct=1540 Sun, 26 Nov 2006 00:50:20 EST Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:27:44 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss RapidFeeds v0.1 -- http://www.rapidfeeds.com Copyright RIPSAW Productions 2006 all rights reserved contact@the-reality-check.com en contact@the-reality-check.com http://the-reality-check.com/images/morality3.gif http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?fid4ct=1540 255 362 Just hearing the word ‘dogma’ triggers emotional reactions in most people, and rarely are those emotions positive. Synonyms of dogmatic include rigid, inflexible, narrow, authoritative. Usually, the word dogma is associated with religion, and without a doubt the worst examples of dogmatism come from the ranks of the Church. As a result, some of you might be a little puzzled at my choice of words in the title. How can I put fundamental, dogma and atheism in the same sentence? Put simply, because atheists hold to their beliefs just as firmly as religious people do; after all, both camps are zealots that have made conclusions about the same subject. The truth is anyone can believe in a dogma; you can be a religious nut, an atheist, an agnostic, or a politician. You can even be a normal, rational person and believe in a dogma. Just because it is a dogma doesn’t make it wrong—that would depend on what the dogma says. So the question isn’t ‘Is adhering to a dogma bad?’ Instead, we should ask, ‘Is the dogma in question reasonable or valid?’ For the sake of comparison, let’s look at some of the fundamental dogma of Christianity. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=17078 dmt@the-reality-check.com Philosophy http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=17078 Fri, 17 Nov 2006 01:30:31 EST