02-17-2015, 11:01 PM
(02-17-2015, 10:52 PM)Monica Wrote:(02-17-2015, 10:48 PM)Shemaya Wrote: Well, ya, that's what dogma is. It's a rigid belief system, often involving a moral stance. Rigidity implies a person is not making ethical considerations, he/she is stuck in her thinking.
Beliefs/dogmas have pretty much screwed up the world, I think we could probably agree that the world will be a better place when people can move past their dogmatic beliefs.
Agreed! But having a conviction isn't necessarily a rigid dogma. As it expresses so well in the meme in my OP.
I think there is nothing wrong with convictions.
But as you have seen, holding your convictions as a moral standard for "spiritual people" has not been received well. Honestly, I think it is a veiled perspective on the issue, it doesn't take the whole picture into consideration, and you already know that dogmatic and rigid belief systems do not work well, they end up causing more pain and suffering for humans who are in the "outgroup" (who don't fit into the belief system).