Definition of Dogma

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Definition of Dogma

Dogma

That which is held as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine.

A formally stated and authoritatively settled doctrine; a definite, established, and authoritative tenet.

A doctrinal notion asserted without regard to evidence or truth; an arbitrary dictum.

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Dogma Quotations

The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
Norman Vincent Peale

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

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

I think the new spirituality will be a spirituality that's not based on a particular dogma. And that steps away from the old spiritual paradigm that we have created on this planet, which comes from a thought that there is such a thing as being better.
Neale Donald Walsch

The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'
Neale Donald Walsch

The Bible is literature, not dogma.
George Santayana

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
Jack Kevorkian

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.
George Eliot

The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.
Rosie O'Donnell

Dogma Translations

dogma in Dutch is dogma, leerstelling, leerstuk
dogma in French is dogme, dogma
dogma in Spanish is dogma

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