(March 22, 2010 at 4:46 pm)RedFish Wrote: I agree that 'God is Love' is dogma. My God is love is not, it is merely my personal belief. I am not an organisation.
I don't consider myself authoritative. I feel affinity with those who Love, but this is not a religion. I don't feel the need to preach, only ask, as Bo Diddly did...''Who do you love?''
I also hate the iniquities of man, the corruption in the catholic church, paedos, rapists, murderers, and many other assorted scumbags. Does this hatred make me unworthy to love? Not to be disputed, doubted or diverged from?? That just makes no sense to me. If you never doubt, you'll never know.
Dogma is the established belief or doctrine held by a religion, ideology or any kind of organization: it is authoritative and not to be disputed, doubted or diverged from.
It is an ideology, not necessarily that of an organization. Nowhere in the definition does it say that dogma only applies to an organization. It is an established belief that is not doubted, which is backed up by your assertion that it just "is".
You can definitely work in the confines of dogma and still hold an entirely personal belief. By the way, is your God any different from any other God that people believe in?