Word: dogma
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...disapprove, we talk about his responsibility to the sensitivities and sensibilities of good people. (That is: us.) So, in the aesthetico-religious sphere, we defend Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ, which portrays Jesus as a human who slowly learns he's divine, and Kevin Smith's Dogma, a raw comedy about an abortion-clinic worker who is a lineal descendant of Jesus. Anyway, I defended these films in TIME, and I took at face value the testimony of Scorsese, who once contemplated entering the priesthood, and Smith, who describes himself as a devout Catholic, that their films...
...called (fictitious) “Picasso Museum of Miami,” is to force the public to question accepted truths. He is adamant that photography does not directly reflect the real world; rather, it is a message filtered through the many lenses of intellectual, cultural and historical dogma. By decoding these biases, Fontcuberta believes we come closer to the truth...
Lorenzo never mourns for the decay of Florence, despite the fact that, in murdering the Duke, she does what all the whining Republicans and hopeless exiles never dared. His madness—her madness—comes not out of dogma but out of an intense aversion to boredom. “Maybe I’ll be honest again,” she says, “and I won’t find it boring...
...We’re told to think about these policies from a particular American business viewpoint,” said Madeleine S. Elfenbein ’04. “Meeting people who have studied and experienced the effects of the policies is a great way to offset that dogma...
...wake-up calls don’t appeal, sign up for one of their intensive monthly weekend retreats to get a feel for the Zen life, or just go to their Monday beginner meditation classes at 6:45 p.m. Zen is considered the “dogma-less” Buddhism, and is not heavily based on scriptures or texts, so the CZC is a great place for meditators of any religious persuasion...