Hmm, you speak of dogma but paste doctrine, bizarre.
Does that prove you are dyslexic?

Here, let me post the rest of YOUR post where you laid out the definition YOU most often use…

“Dog”ma (?), n.; pl. E. Dogmas (#), L. Dogmata (#). [L. dogma, Gr. , pl. , fr. to think, seem, appear; akin to L. decet it is becoming. Cf. Decent.]

1. That which is held as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine. “

In public schools students are usually taught evolution, that God did not create man.
Mentioning creation is forbidden, there is genuine proof of neither.
Now what were you saying?

Mentioning creationism is NOT forbidden in school. It’s talked about in comparative religion. What is NOT allowed is for it to be taught in a science class.
Here’s a simple question for ya in two parts:
Have you ever had a flu shot? Have you ever had more than one flu shot?

btw, you also ignored the part about atheism not being taught & not dogma. Don’t be afraid of critical thinking, it doesn’t hurt.

In any case as I posted several days ago I have always respected your or any other believers beliefs. It is up to you to decide and I have never, here or anywhere else tried to impose my atheism on anyone else.
We are free to choose. All we are doing here is debating semantics.

I don’t discuss it until someone starts discussing religion… That’s why my posts about aircraft don’t contain any reference to it 🙂

Oh wait, you aren’t reading my posts, n/m 😉

It seems to depend on your dictionary:-
DOGMA n “a settled opinion; a principle or doctrine; a doctrine laid down with (note – not by) authority”
Rather seems to cover both sides of the argument, to me, anyway.

A complete lack of evidence can hardly be described as “dogma”. People aren’t acquitted during trials because of dogma. At least where I live.

I wonder if those responsible for this little ‘incident’ had a religious upbringing?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15335899

What happened to their consciences, awareness of others needs and ability to distinguish between right and wrong?

According to the bible it wouldn’t make any difference at all. Jeremiah 1:5 “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you”

Therefore before god formed Hitler, Stalin, Gacy, Speck, Manson, Bundy, Capone, Dahmer, Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden & Jack the Ripper etc… god knew them & what they would do.

That’s a bit awkward..

Your flaw is that God made sure what ever was written down, despite man’s attempts to totally screw with it, carry the abstract of truth God wants.

You simply cannot understand the concept of true faith, unless you have faith in mankind to not screw things up worse than they already are.

Now that is a concept believed by uneducated people.

A religious person claims to have knowledge of supernatural entities who we aren’t just supposed to believe exist, but we’re ALSO meant to believe they want things from us. A religious man or woman claims that a god, or gods, need us to worship them, to acknowledge them, to have us lay down and prostate ourselves to their supposedly omnipotent selves. Or worst, that WE need the gods, and that without them, our lives are somehow meaningless.

A religious person believes that after we die we go somewhere. Where that “somewhere” is varies from religion to religion, but a common theme is that if you’re a good person you’ll go somewhere (or become something) good, and if you’re a bad person you’ll go some place (or become something) bad.

The religious believe this because a book – in rarer cases a singular holy man or woman – has assured them that it’s true because “It just is, shut up”, and usually placed a huge penalty on doubting these unfounded “truth claims” that may or may not include an eternity in aforementioned “bad place,” and/or horrible things happening to you and/or people you care about now, or in the future.

All of these beliefs, plus some, come together to form a dogma. The definition of dogma: A principle or set of principles laid down by an authority as incontrovertibly true.

Now, what do atheists believe?

Atheists believe those dogmas are fictional, and we require evidence to the contrary before we’re willing to make ourselves slaves to an entity that – by all rational measures – has never been proven to even exist.

That’s it. That’s all atheists have in common; We reject your theology.

We reject your dogma. We don’t have a new dogma of our own that all atheists must follow… We just think yours is fictional, and would appreciate it greatly if you stopped trying to force it on others with your words and actions unless and until you can prove it, which no one has ever done, ever.

There are conservative atheists and liberal atheists. Capitalist atheists, communist atheists, happy atheists, sad atheists. Generous atheists and selfish atheists, kind atheists and mean atheists.

It’s not “dogmatic” to reject ideas that present no rational basis for believing in them. It just isn’t. That’s not what “dogma” means.

So next time you feel the need to call an atheist dogmatic, do try to keep in mind that all you’re actually doing is labeling yourself as someone with a “personal unsubstantiated belief” that certain words in the English language should mean different things when you really want them to.

Christianity is the only religion based solely on faith. NOTHING else is necessary to except faith that what Jesus did and said is true.

There’s a major flaw with statement. Jesus didn’t author one word of the bible. The entire book is hearsay. What you think is faith in god etc is really faith that a bunch of uneducated desert dwelling people knew what they were talking about. It’s obvious to anyone who was taught how to think instead of what to think that none of the claims in the book hold up in any way at all.

If God acts for you, it may be a case of one asking a doctor how it happened and the doctor saying, “I do not know, it goes against known biological science.””

So your answer to ‘I don’t know” is “It’s magic”? I have to ask: Have you ever been assessed for psychiatric treatment or medications?

Goblins??? Grow up.

You can —- go out hunt them down and kill them before they strike again.

You’re having comprehension problems again. I said “If I could, I would”.. whereas this psychopathic monster you believe exists just stands idly by & lets children be raped. I couldn’t stand idly by. I assume you’d just stand there like an idiot watching “gods will” happen before your eyes.