Synonyms for dogma
ˈdɔg mə, ˈdɒg-; -mə tədog·ma

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1. dogma

   Doctrine primarily signifies that which is taught; principle, the fundamental basis on which the teaching rests. A doctrine is reasoned out, and may be defended by reasoning; a dogma rests on authority, as of direct revelation, the decision of the church, etc. A doctrine or dogma is a statement of some one item of belief; a creed is a summary of doctrines or dogmas. Dogma has commonly, at the present day, an offensive signification, as of a belief arrogantly asserted. Tenet is simply that which is held, and is applied to a single item of belief; it is a neutral word, neither approving nor condemning; we speak of the doctrines of our own church; of the tenets of others. A precept relates not to belief, but to conduct. Compare FAITH; LAW.

   Synonyms:
   article of belief, article of faith, belief, doctrine, precept, principle, teaching, tenet

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1. dogma, tenetnoun

   a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof

   Synonyms:
   tenet

2. dogmanoun

   a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative

   "he believed all the Marxist dogma"

   Synonyms:
   tenet

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1. dogmanoun

   Synonyms:
   doctrine, tenet, opinion, principle, article of faith

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1. dogmanoun

   Synonyms:
   doctrine, tenet

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1. List of paraphrases for "dogma":

   dogmatism, dogmatic, doctrine

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1. Proverb:

   Life is a dogma and a fight for the dogma.

2. Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh:

   Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.

3. Bertrand Russell, "Why I am Not a Christian":

   I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in a rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them though life against the shafts of impartial evidence.

4. Deepak Chopra:

   Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.

5. Christopher Starr:

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