the.com/dogma
The belief you're told to have, with thinking optional and questioning forbidden.
means A fixed, authoritative belief that a group or institution insists must be accepted without question or proof.
from From Greek 'dogma,' meaning 'opinion' or 'that which seems good,' rooted in the verb 'dokein' — 'to seem' or 'to think.' The Greek root is the same one hiding in 'orthodox' and 'paradox.' The irony is baked in: a word that started as mere 'opinion' or 'what seems true to someone' hardened over centuries, especially through Church usage, into 'official, non-negotiable truth.' From a shrug to a commandment.
- origin
- Greek for opinion, ironically now means non-negotiable
- test
- if evidence can't change it, it's dogma
- irony
- every dogma started as someone's rebellious new idea
- religion
- not exclusive, politics and diets have it too