Word: dogma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professor Hook found no logical connection between metaphysical beliefs and conduct. He defended "empiricism and science" against "dogma and superstition...
What they will not do automatically is to maintain their educated attitude. They will be attracted by the lures of responsibility and definiteness, and they will be pushed by dogma and by disparagement of the indecisiveness -- "fuzzy-mindedness" -- with which college impregnated them. They will confront economic and political realities and close their senses to intellectual realities. They will preserve the symbols of education while destroying the essence, and then wonder why they cannot regain their former flexibility of thought...
...short, with their latest issue, the Bow Street Aviary has only proved once again what we have always maintained: that it is not, has not been, nor is ever likely to be even remotely funny. Too busy patting their own dogma, touting their own theories, the "funnymen" have come up with another turkey. The Lampoon has indeed gone a long way downhill since the days of Benchley and Williams...
Whether or not these views are correct, the main objection to this person's entire line of thought is that, invoking the name of liberalism and free thinking, he is in actuality practicing a dogma more absolute than that found in any religion. Certainly the presence at Harvard of a resident University Chaplain and an elective course in religion cannot be construed as an invasion of Withheld-by-Request's privacy, intellectual or otherwise. Charles B. Flood...
Nehru acknowledges the human need for religious faith, but "the spectacle of what is called religion . . . has filled me with horror . . . Almost always it seems to stand for blind belief and reaction, dogma and bigotry, superstition and exploitation, and the preservation of vested interests." He acknowledges the mysteries of existence with a polite bow: if the scientific method, the only sound approach to life, does not cover all situations, man must "rely on such other powers of apprehension as we may possess." He concedes that "there might be a soul...