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dogma 1. a religious doctrine or system of doctrines proclaimed by ecclesiastical authority as true 2. a belief, principle, or doctrine or a code of beliefs, principles, or doctrines How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Gibbon, "a thoroughgoing skeptic [though] not an atheist", in Himmelfarb's estimation, dismissed the philosophes, who he said "preached the tenets of atheism with the bigotry of dogmatists, and damned all believers with ridicule and contempt. The priest, who fits the usual Hollywood stereotype of men of the cloth as rigid dogmatists, is first introduced to the audience as a calloused, short-tempered pastor who hurls a vulgar expletive at Frankie and tells him to stop coming to church. One suspects that dogmatists have simply become so accustomed to dogmatizing that appealing to the Bible is just their way of asserting the truth of their opinion, from wherever they got it. |
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