(July 26, 2011 at 12:38 pm)leo-rcc Wrote: Well lets look at that shall we?
Dogma is the established belief or doctrine held by a religion, or by extension by some other group or organization. It is authoritative and not to be disputed, doubted, or diverged from, by the practitioner or believers.
This is the important part.
If what is being repeated is demonstrated to be false, it is someting that rational people will drop like a hot potato and move on. Repeating the same thing over and over despite it being false is dogmatic, specially if it is pointed out to you.
Thanks, I could have looked a bit harder admittedly, I think I just skimmed dictionary.com and it wasn't very helpful.
(July 26, 2011 at 12:38 pm)leo-rcc Wrote: Sure, but that is not a valid argument in favour of atheism as it is so often used.
Atheist means anyone who's not theist, it's not more than that. I use it like that, I've reason to believe that most of the people I follow online including Dawkins use it like that, unless I've misunderstood them.
It tends to be theists who want to redefine it the other way around such that it's a positive belief of some sort, hoping to shift the burden of proof on to us.
