(January 15, 2022 at 12:01 pm)Angrboda Wrote: No, that would be dogma. We already have a word for that. Ideological in the sense of being pejorative typically means that one's ideology dictates their beliefs to a greater extent than is common in the average person, or is held irrationally.
There you go. There is hardly a difference. Dogma is also something that is dictated that must be believed, just like let's say communist ideology - you must believe that your leader is the greatest, you must believe that party is right, you must believe that "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" works, etc.
(January 15, 2022 at 12:01 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Strictly speaking, everybody has an ideology, except for the fact that the word is not often used in that sense in colloquial discourse.
I wouldn't say so. Belacqua claims that trusting science is an ideology. But science is evidence, and there is no ideology of evidencism.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
