What is Dogma?

We encounter dogma lots all over our lives.

Many of us, some without knowing, some with, will also propagate dogma in our interactions.

But what is dogma? And is it really as good as it seems?

A dogma is a doctrine that is professed with certainty when, in fact, there is no such certainty available to profess.

A belief is dogmatic if is is stated and used as a fact, when in fact it is just a belief.

We shouldn't really care about what people belief but rather how they use their beliefs to effect changes outside of their own minds.

Most people are a little dogmatic about some things, some of them mundane, some of them preposterous.

There is always a little bit of uncertainty in all contingent truths.

It is hard to be dogmatic about maths and logic, but even science, at the base, needs a little bit of faith.

But this gap between faith and fact is a leash between reason and dogma, the longer it is, the bigger the dogma.

We should keep our dogmas on the shortest possible leash.

Woof.