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If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.
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dogmatism
life
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Terry Eagleton |
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Though he never actually joined it, he was close to some civilian elements of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which was the most Communist (and in the rather orthodox sense) of the Palestinian formations. I remember Edward once surprising me by saying, and apropos of nothing: 'Do you know something I have never done in my political career? I have never publicly criticized the Soviet Union. It's not that I terribly sympathize with them or anything--it's just that the Soviets have never done anything to harm me, or us.' At the time I thought this a rather naive statement, even perhaps a slightly contemptible one, but by then I had been in parts of the Middle East where it could come as a blessed relief to meet a consecrated Moscow-line atheist-dogmatist, if only for the comparatively rational humanism that he evinced amid so much religious barking and mania. It was only later to occur to me that Edward's pronounced dislike of George Orwell was something to which I ought to have paid more attention.
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communism
dflp
dogmatism
edward-said
humanism
liberation
middle-east
moscow
orwell
palestine
palestinians
politics
rationality
religion
religious-extremism
soviet-union
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Christopher Hitchens |
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For Christian writers, religious faith is not a rebellion against reason, but a revolt against the imprisonment of humanity within the cold walls of a rationalist dogmatism.
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dogmatism
faith
liberalism
rationalism
reason
rebellion
revolt
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Alister E. McGrath |
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If we seek the truth without realizing how far we are from it, we will be dogmatists. If we realize how far we are from the truth but do not seek it, we will be skeptics. If we both seek the truth and realize how far we are from it, we will be wise.
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dogmatism
skepticism
truth
wisdom
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Peter Kreeft |