Word: dogma
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...also returned to the fold after marrying a Ukrainian Catholic. Mary, 40, married a lapsed Methodist and worships "God's creation" in her own unstructured fashion. Rosie, 38, drifted into the Hindu-influenced Self- Realization Fellowship. Chris, 34, picked Unitarianism, which offered some of Christianity's morality without its dogma. Theresa, 36, spent five years exploring the "Higher Power" in 12-step self-help programs. Ann, 30, called off her wedding when her nonpracticing Jewish fiance embraced Orthodoxy, a crisis that "sparked a whole new journey...
...medical community has become a priesthood in white coats. And like any priesthood, it has a tendency to attach to dogma. In this case, the dogma declares that it is always necessary to do something--anything--for a patient, even when no profitable treatment is available. Thus doctors will often perfunctorily prescribe some treatment for mononucleosis, though the illness will pass on its own and in its own time. Doctors often pursue unbelievably expensive courses of treatment in cases where there is no reasonable prognosis for recovery...
...thus witness a tragic irony: Gravely ill patients fight their doctors not to treat them, not to spend millions on a futile battle that offers them only the prospect of a Pyrrhic victory. Patients, understanding what blind dogma won't recognize, arm themselves with do-not-resuscitate orders and living wills...
Therefore, worse than insensitivity is intolerance. Worse than divisiveness is an existing dogma left unchallenged. While some members of the Council and the student body castigate Mohammad and Mansfield, I celebrate them for reinforcing what we all already knew: racial bigotry is simply unacceptable. Instead of condemning those with "insensitive" opinions, let us thank them. David L. Hanselman, Jr. '94 Vice-Chair, Undergraduate Council
...goes on to suggest that "there is an economic structure of racism that will persist even if every white who hates Blacks goes through a total conversion." If this idea sounds like heresy, it's only because we have bought in so completely to the dogma that racism is the inalienable, indivisible expression of a general will on the part of whites living in the past, today and in the future. The liberal contention that Harrington puts forward is that most of the racial inequality that persists today is not the intentional result of discrimination, but primarily an economic phenomenon...