Word: dogma
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...recent years a jarring new dogma has challenged equality of opportunity. It argues for an assured equality of results. As Rawls writes in A Theory of Justice, "Since the inequalities of birth and natural endowment are undeserved, these inequalities are to be somehow compensated for. In order to treat all persons equally, to provide genuine equality of opportunity, society must give more attention to those with fewer native assets and to those born into the less favorable social position...
...other people's rigidity, Miller severely circumscribes his polytheism by limiting it to the Greek pantheon "simply because," he explains, "willy-nilly, we are Occidental men and women." He fails to consider the psychological utility, for instance, of the richly nuanced popular theology of Roman Catholicism, beneath whose dogma, he concedes grudgingly, may lurk "all the gods and goddesses of the ancient world."* The basic problem of Miller's book is that he has tossed up as a clay pigeon a monotheism that is an arid and abstract doctrine rather than the complex and mysterious vision that...
...rather a pity that the sheep cannot get together with the goats. At the very least, the paranormal establishment has questioned the dogma, emphasized the ignorance and underlined the arrogance of modern medicine and science. Indeed, modern doctors have scarcely breached the frontiers of the mind. Science has all too frequently destroyed the layman's sense of wonder by seeking materialistic explanations for all phenomena...
...debate over the First Amendment prompts one to propose that the cult of a free press with "objective" reporting of "all the news that's fit to print" can become just as dogmatic as the dogma of papal infallibility in Roman Catholicism, or finding the "correct" party line in Marxism-Leninism. Marx and Freud have virtually destroyed the doctrine of detached objectivity and have instead shown how people think or react according to their social class or emotional needs...
...plight of the Roman Catholic Church with its exodus of priests and communicants points up a problem which is not unique to the Catholic Church, but one it shares with other churches in which there is often too much concern with dogma and ritual rather than with the higher aims and values of practically all religions...