In Reply to: Re: But since you asked me a direct question...guess posted by MG on January 05, 2010 at 15:56:17:
Is their tone towards anyone who is able to find their own way, another way´in life.
Their mind is made up. Anything outside of the bible is satanic or deviant or ungodly and cannot be spiritually enlightening. No surpise we were all part of a cult once. The least secure people are the most dogmatic. This back to bible basics movement in ex members who remain christian is very common. In their minds deviating from the bible is what lead to their reading mo letters. And look at the mess we all ended up in from doing that. So they get fundamentalistic and closed minded just to guard themselves.
Those who refuse the long drudgery of thought, and think with the heart rather than the head, are ever the most fiercely dogmatic in tone.
- Peter Bayne
When people are the least sure, they are often the most dogmatic.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or dogmatical on any subject; and even if excessive scepticism could be maintained it would not be more destructive to all just reasoning and inquiry. When men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities.
- David Hume
When men are the most sure and arrogant, they commonly are the most mistaken.
- David Hume
Dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth.
- Douglas William Jerrold
They utter all they think with violence.
- Ben Jonson
It is a wrong use of my understanding to make it the rule and measure of another man's--a use which it is neither fit for nor capable of.
- John Locke (1)
Those who differ most from the opinions of their fellow-men are the most confident of the troth of their own.
- Sir James Mackintosh
A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbors. Every one of his opinions appears to him written, as it were, with sunbeams, and he grows angry that his neighbors do not see it in the same light. He is tempted to disdain his correspondents as men of low and dark understandings because they do not believe what he does.
- Isaac Watts