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Hate and Fear
Truth and Dogma
Dogma is a very narrow understanding of Truth.
“Dogma” in today’s colloquialism has become a set of ideologies that people slavishly adhere to, abrogating rational thought, compassion, and empathy for the pursuit of a dogma-inflamed agenda. In my estimation, dogma is what people cling to when they hold no true beliefs. It lets them puff themselves up and justify their small-minded pursuit of an agenda that excludes anyone who doesn’t slavishly follow the same dogma.
Sadly, dogma is not always pure untruths. More often, it’s a very narrow understanding of Truth. See, Truth is indisputable; it is evidentiary and repeatedly provable. But, “truth is subjective” — meaning, what we understand and choose to believe is subjective. It is that distinction which dogma uses to manipulate and twist subjective truth out of all semblance of Truth.
These folks who slave themselves to one dogma see the world through a narrow, restrictive lens: the world is black or white, never both, never shades of grey, never in full color. For example, my mother was a Pentecostal fundamentalist Christian. She cheered a the recent election for candidates who will uphold anti-abortion movements, block marriage equality, etc. She didn’t vote, though. She’d only ever voted for Reagan, so far as I know.
