We lack the religious dogmatism and discipline of the other religions who are posing a threat to the very fabric of our religion. |
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Their arrogance and dogmatism in pursuit of their political struggle led at one point to a kind of reckless disregard for life. |
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If Carlyle's criticism curdled into diatribes of denunciation, Comte's calcified into the dogmatism of a cult. |
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What follows is a powerful rendering of the clashing realities facing Arab youth as they fight against religious dogmatism. |
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A while back, I criticised dogmatism among atheists as well as an excess of certainty in belief. |
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In this ideological age, the youth movements displayed no small measure of dogmatism and elitism. |
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However, she was not nearly as concerned with religious dogmatism as were her siblings. |
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Leninism defined correct party policy against the ideological enemies of dogmatism, revisionism, and opportunism. |
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You will be hounded and pilloried by the institutional left, ruled as they are by a parochial insularity and dogmatism. |
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Nonetheless, popular songwriters ridiculed what they perceived as the inherent dogmatism and moral arrogance of these traditions. |
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While religious dogmatism is always a danger, it is less of a problem for us today than the soft-core spirituality that is its opposite. |
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He scoffed at the disparate creeds of religions, each claiming to see the truth through the colored lenses of its own dogmatism. |
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At the same time, there were clear signs that political repression and ideological dogmatism would be hallmarks of communist power. |
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But in this New World, dogmatism and its blood brother, religious fundamentalism, are thriving as never before. |
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The philosophes criticized the ancien regime of religious superstition and dogmatism, hidebound social traditions, and repressive morality. |
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Today this scholarship is threatened with dogmatism and, consequently, political irrelevance. |
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But the party realises that pragmatism rather than dogmatism is required if it is to make headway in a deeply divided polity. |
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What is holding this research back is not money but dogmatism and narrow-mindedness. |
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This makes it much easier to push a kind of fascist dogmatism onto people who do not make much attempt to question the status quo. |
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For others, it was the beginning of a culture of dependency which intensified over the decades, encouraged by political dogmatism. |
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Most of us locate ourselves at some point along a spectrum, with religious dogmatism at one extreme and ideological secularism at the other. |
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Superstition, cruelty, religious fanaticism, prejudice and medieval dogmatism were all anathema to a wit like Voltaire. |
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While the academy is not free of dogmatists, it nonetheless rejects dogmatism because it represents the end of thinking. |
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The hon. member had the opportunity to rise here in the House and put aside all the dogmatism and ideology she spoke of. |
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In presenting the main outlines of the orthodox theory, he is refreshingly free of the arrogance and simplistic dogmatism that seems to permeate the subject. |
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These days, people think less of John Paul's contribution to the ending of the cold war, and more of his dogmatism, narrow-mindedness and sheer wrong-headedness. |
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Like Galileo's trial before the Inquisition, this was not an argument about truth but a struggle for power, a sign of the religious dogmatism of the Counter-Reformation. |
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Our guiding principle should be to leave behind parochial nationalism and dogmatism, and to promote mutually beneficial cooperation based on equality to enjoy prosperity. |
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While religion was a positive force, religious fervour in extremis could lead to negative side effects such as dogmatism and intolerance. |
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But just because dogmatism and division are endemic to many religious zealots does not make them any more conscionable. |
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He was among the young artists who were against academicism taking stances favouring the overcoming of formalistic dogmatism. |
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Daniel Bensaïd developed during that period an open Marxism, against any dogmatism or fatalist vision of a linear History. |
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Harbouring illusions about foreign music and mechanically copying it are expressions of sycophancy and dogmatism. |
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We have to invent the plan B that has never existed and reason must prevail over dogmatism and other demagogic positions. |
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When we examine the State's role in this manner, we inevitably lapse into dogmatism. |
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To exact vengeance on individuals whose views you disagree with is dogmatism. |
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The dogmatism would be to forget in this relationship a third indispensable person. |
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The conditions are consequently favourable for a move towards an innovative formula which is devoid of any dogmatism. |
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We could even forgive it all that, because conservatism and perhaps even a little dogmatism go with the job of central banking. |
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Fortunately, the vision and pragmatism of Godbout's Liberal Party won out over ideological dogmatism. |
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The governance of uniformity is tyranny, it is dogmatism, it is dictatorship. |
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And this dogmatism may be fateful as regards the respect for persons or democratic values. |
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I think, in fact, that when a spiritual practice becomes an object, what we call dogmatism or idolatry arises. |
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The war in Iraq once again brings the threat of an increase in dogmatism, fundamen-talism and intolerance in our society. |
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Such understanding will also help that policy evolve sensibly and pragmatically, without dogmatism in decision-making. |
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All are free to hold their own convcitions, but members of the association are asked to avoid all dogmatism. |
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Lambert isn't against atonalism, and admires Berg a great deal, but he's against any sort of dogmatism, and the atonalists had become dogmatic even by then. |
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They variously attacked spiritual and scientific authority, dogmatism, intolerance, censorship, and economic and social restraints. |
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Another backdrop is the rise of influence of fundamentalist groups and various forms of religious dogmatism. |
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Today's world appears dominated by xenophobia, religious dogmatism, racial solidarity and ethnic egocentrism. |
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In response to theological attacks, the Iowa Synod appealed to open questions as a defense against dogmatism on unessential matters. |
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Comparative law is said to facilitate the improvement of national laws by means of the competition of legal systems and by freeing legal thought from dogmatism. |
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Well, I have never heard such dogmatism in my life! |
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The principal threat to security today comes from poverty, the unequal distribution of resources, dogmatism and ignorance, mass population movements and social injustices which spark rejection. |
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If you want to blast away at the rigid patriarchalism and dogmatism of the church, fine. |
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Their talk is of the single currency, which is threatened by economic failings in Mario Monti's Italy, Nicolas Sarkozy's France and in even weaker Mediterranean countries but also by dogmatism in Angela Merkel's Germany. |
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Beyond any theoretical dogmatism, experience shows that an excessive growth of the monetary assets available to resident non-financial agents is a pre-condition of inflation. |
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The candidates will need to evince great openness and aversion to dogmatism, traditionalism or fundamentalism, and they need to be open to various methods of learning. |
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Amid charges of impulsiveness, uncontrollability, and dogmatism, Sharon made many enemies and was kept from the top army position that his military exploits might otherwise have gained for him. |
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