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Peel away the dogma, and they will be the same
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All the while Al-Harron decelerated ever closer to the rendezvous with that asteroid and the re-convening of the Haadij's assembly when the Council of Faith and Dogma would announce their decision
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"No," he said, "I am the opposite of dogma
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This hasty decision based on fear and dogma bothered him
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I do not accept the dogma “God loves you under the condition that you believe and submit to my religion, or your life after death will be a permanent and endless state of despair in a dark place'
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That which runs over one"s dogma
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‘They have spies in our government offices, and cybermercinarys who have fallen under the influence of their ultra capitalist dogma
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All he could make of everything was that there was much more behind the Ruling Council than their rule of tyranny and oppressive dogma, something which eluded him still
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Those teachings were long forgotten and ignored as church dogma
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But—he felt his mouth curling at the thought—I’ve had nothing but time, and have pretty well learned to speak in the parables of a supposedly meaningless dogma
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From the extreme of acceptance that declares that Man’s science has become supreme, with there now being “no need” for the “superstitious” dogma of religion, to the angry declarations to the opposite, I stand in independent and apparently lonely opposition
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From the ecstatic excitement of discovery, to the enthusiasm of acceptance; from the reverence of insightful interpretation, to the worship of stable dogma; then the merely ritual observance of traditional declarations that eventually slide into only dutiful obeisance to form
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As these experiences turned into ever more static belief systems, standard interpretations became unchallengeable dogma vociferously defended by those most likely to reap benefit from “things as they are
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Of course, by extrapolation, this can be applied to any religion or belief system wherein the lack of positive proof creates doubts in some who are not convinced that following the precepts of that tenet, dogma or system of behavior will produce the results claimed for it
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The search for a different interpretation, or understanding of an alternate acceptable behavior pattern that will overcome their reservations, can take many forms but inevitably meets with opposition from those whose authority governs and preserves the traditional dogma, or understanding
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These earlier best guesses should have never been cast in the stone of final answers, as many seem to have insisted upon who felt responsible for stable dogma
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This results in rapid growth and the quick eradication of dogma
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“Then I'll believe,” retorted Clara, secure in the dogma that no such things exist
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It suggested that these people are evil and linked them with freemasonry, although they declared that there is nothing in their Catholic dogma which condemns cremation
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A preacher which is worth his salt, will resign and sever all ties with church, no matter what the dogma is, and a preacher who is only worth half his salt, will refuse point blank to partake in any action whatsoever related to any form of cremation
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Notice how little change has taken place in the last elections, within the last few presidents that the United States has elected there has been little change, no drastic measures taken, only perpetuating the same dogma that each has created before him
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church that has no dogma other than serve and caring of others
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They supplied their believers with Church law and dogma and
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But there was also a gain to the Church; the suspicion of the novel led to a rate of change in dogma that is glacial; thus there is a comforting continuity of tradition and practice that has prevented the Church from deteriorating into secular humanism, as happened to Calvinist and Jewish orthodoxy
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(The dogma of papal supremacy was not accepted until 1871
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Peabody had a strong sense of Christianity, without being overly concerned with dogma
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crystallized in dogma, because it is open to a continual becoming, without any
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a wet blanket on scientific dogma which still asserts that the human body
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“It is free from any form of dogma
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Mixed up in all the wetness were tears of frustration that fat Patrick and his ilk should still be alive, destroying gladness with their bigotry, dogma and hatred, while Max, beautiful Max, was nothing but a cupful of ashes
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‘All wise men not infected by religious dogma have always advocated kindness, generosity, consideration, affection, honesty, hospitality, compassion, charity, humour, gentleness, equality, listening, egalitarianism, respect for the elderly, love of children, and diligent respect for the land, plants and animals
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The smartest part of the dogma is the gods’ promise that if people obey their laws unquestioningly, then they will live forever after death in a perfect land beyond the reach of suffering
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Sapiens have always indoctrinated their offspring with irrational dogma because it’s an efficient means of controlling them
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Childhood fears matured at university into a paranoia that, together with reclusive belligerence, earned him no friends and few acquaintances apart from fellow devotees of Old Testament dogma
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In this way he sought to prevent successive generations from crystallizing his teaching and binding down his spiritual meanings by the dead chains of tradition and dogma
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The dogma came to hide the real meaning in the words
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There is much that is controlled by dogma but there is much that is controlled by those out of dogma who simply intend on seeking comfort in their views of the earth plane which were conceived at very early stages in life
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It is not necessary to be entrenched in any specific dogma because they are all true to some degree and at various times are what specific individuals will need
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more of the same old religious dogma that was not helping my soul to
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dogma of the church, but I did not leave the Grace of God
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judge others purely out of religious dogma and pride
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dogma he was considered to be dead to all life and
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controlled by dogma that they are told what to eat
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was not corrupted by the dogma of His day and did
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just that He fed the five (under the veil of dogma)
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whom are held fast to dogma will always attempt to change the
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Such is the beginning of DOGMA
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while the mind is deluded by dogma
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blame others the way dogma does
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which are generally inherited from the habit of dogma
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By offering only the plain honest truth, Epicureanism offered at least some small alternative to the rampant fantasy and sensationalism of popular opinion and organized dogma
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A fire-brand priest by the name of Savonarola preached that old, tired fallacy that the end time was at hand, and he insisted that works of art and literature not in keeping with the strict, repressive long-standing dogma were of an evil nature
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Leading the Union forces in the fight against the slave states was Abraham Lincoln, who stated he could never assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma
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The perverseness of Christian dogma would eventually be challenged by the one thing
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Famous statesman, businessman and inventor, Ben Franklin found Christian dogma unintelligible and avoided Christian assemblies from early in life
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But the fact is, they’re the blind, bastard sons of ignorant dogma
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ability to solve problems without being a slave to dogma, including some of my own rigid belief structures, which come to the surface
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of God ? What is the use of following the rules and rituals of religion ? How the dogma
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It is true, as might have been expected, that the formation of dogma, necessitated by heresy, has been for the most part the work of bishops and presbyters, an Athanasius, a Leo, an Augustine
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After centuries of Papal oppression exemplified by the dogma of sexual sin, the Christian West broke loose from its puritanical shackles, as though with a vengeance
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However, the God’s coup de grace appears to be in the psychological arena of the Islamic dogma
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However, it is on their religious dogma that the fundamentalist elements and their power hungry despots feed upon
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And that is in spite of the unceasing efforts of their proselytizers and the presence of their converts in their midst for a millennium! It is thus, the surprising resistance of the Hindu dharma to the dogma of Semitic religions, unlike the political capitulation of India to foreign forces, would be worth probing for the fault lines in the proselytizing faiths
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On the other hand, as against the single scripture wisdom of the Semitic religions and the dogma of their prophets, the Hindu sanaatana dharma is a spiritual way of life with an imbibed philosophical ethos that is steeped in deep-rooted culture and tradition
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Be that as it may, while the Semitic religions are faith driven, the sanaatana dharma is philosophical in its orientation, and that enables the Hindus to probe the vicissitudes of life not bound by any scriptural dogma
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The Italian footballer, dejected as he was in the wake of the penalty goof that cost his country the World Cup, reportedly turned to Buddhism for solace for he felt that the Christian dogma had no philosophical inputs in it to face of the vicissitudes of life
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But when it comes to the peoples of the Books, it is not enough that the others too have faith in the selfsame God but their dogma too should be no different from their brand of dogma of a given sub-faith, and in what can be said as the acme of the Semitic religious intolerance, the Ahmadis / Shias of Pakistan and the Shias of Iraq have come to suffer at the Sunni hands as the worst victims of the Islamic dogma
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If the Islamic faith became a dogma of the Musalmans akin to paranoia, then the Brahman haughtiness was transformed into the Hindu insensitivity
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How remarkable that the temporal condition of a set of people and the religious dogma of a faith that makes deprivation a virtue should serve the cause of both! Their new found religious status could have enabled those converts to perceive themselves no longer as Hindu outcasts but as Musalmans in a pan-Islamic fold
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Thus, with no change in the ground realities, and in spite of the burden of a religious dogma coupled with a tedious culture that the faith imposed upon them, the converts remained enthusiastic about their lot, illustrating the power of Islam over the minds of the poor, to be precise on the poor men
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What all this proves is that in an open society, not constrained by religious dogma, there could be pro and contra view points for debate and discussion, leading to the eventual crystallization of public opinion and political mandate
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But the bane of the closed Islamic societies is that there cannot be any contrary view of life than the pro Quran-hadith-sunna dogma, as all the Musalmans share common beliefs and imbibe the same prejudices
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How sad, there is no countervailing political force to the religious dogma in the Islamic nations
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But as might be seen, in reality, the Musalmans are the unfortunate victims of the Islamic dogma shaped by Muhammad’s hostility towards ‘the others’ that was unambiguously aided and abetted by Allah through the Quran
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After all, isn’t martyrdom too tempting a proposition for the shahid what with the promised company of all those black-eyed virgins? Lest there should be any doubt in the minds of the prospective martyrs about the capacity of man to enjoy so many women, lo, the Quran had clarified that their own virility increaseth a hundred fold to be able to have them all! Oh, Muhammad! The uniqueness of the Mohammedan faith is that the belief enables the believer to endure the hassles of Islamic dogma ‘here’ while conditioning himself to sacrifice his life, if need be, for the rewards of ‘the hereafter’ guaranteed for the martyrs
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Maybe a slight brushing up of the world history, not just the Islamic victories of yore, might enable the Musalmans to come out of their cocoons of bitterness in the wilderness of dogma into which they had insensibly pushed themselves into
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Here was an outstanding exponent of the Hindustani classical music who, being a devout Musalman, and in spite of the Quranic injunctions against idol worship, was wont to sing in ecstasy before the Deity of Sarada, the goddess of learning, in the hill temple at Maihar! Though his religious dogma would have him not to bow but to Allah, his theological wisdom enabled him to grasp the truth that the Omnipresent Allah would be present in the Hindu Deities as well; and so he had seen the falsity of the Muslim fallacy in making the Omnipotent Almighty a captive of Islam
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What are the madrasas if not the pillars of the masjids to keep the faith going the way it was from Muhammad’s time; they are no more than the Islamic wells of dogma and what else could be the vision of its moulvis than their resident frogs, at best, helping the pupils memorize the Quran and at worst making bigots out of them
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Moreover, the Hindu dominated Indian media, controlled by those that are naïve about the Islamic dogma, in its eagerness to be on the right side of secularism; runs a tirade against the Hindu nationalist forces and ends up perpetuating the Muslim obscurantism
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Even though the Shia-Sunni killings, clearly rooted in the sectarian dogma of the Islamic divide, were to be shrouded by some ethnic animosity attached to them, the Sunni slaughter of the sub-continental Shias in Iraq begs for answers
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And in them lie the alleviation of the inherent dangers of the separatist dogma that bedevils the mind-set of the Musalman
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Of course, their upbringing enjoins on them to live and die for the supposedly holy causes of Islam, and attendant to this maxim is the righteousness of aggression against all those perceived as antagonistic to their dogma
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In other word Mohammad couldn’t show that he had the firsthand authority but Mohammad had more creativity in the intended dogma and destruction
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The al-mahdi will use the sword as virtue any free thinker considered guilty of zandaqa against the dogma of Islam
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This is not a dogma but certainty
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Could you see through the dogma of your Christian church?
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Can you see through the dogma that the churches give out
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Yet, love adheres to no dogma, nor is it legalistic
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But progress, as teleological uphill arrow ever moving to some higher level, this progress is a dogma, not a law nor a principle
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Love is not dogma; it is a dynamic act in the face of ever changing situations
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"A dogma recognized throughout antiquity
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This unconventional dogma had the Daityas, Danavas and Rakshas so
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The journalist Max Hustings wrote in his Mail Online article under the headline “Years Of Liberal Dogma” a few days later; “They are essentially wild beasts
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It was inevitable that, left to themselves, both races would reject the extremes of their imposed dogma
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one, it can be considered as a dogma, originating from a prophetic source, whose authority is
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students to further the false dogma presently in place
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force created by the value of mass is as unbelievable as the dogma is of those presenting this idea
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on will lead to conceiving the baby … that is the manner in which science dogma is enunciated but that is
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of mass that attract mass and put to question the reliability of Newton’s dogma
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The problem with this propaganda scam was that the lower classes began to catch on to it, and started to ape the upper classes, and copy them, and act just as irresponsibly and immorally and unethically as the Church and the ruling classes… and stopped believing in all that dogma