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DOGMA, civil law. This word is used in the first chapter, first section, of the second Novel, and signifies an ordinance of the senate. See also Dig. 27, 1, 6. |
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Gibbon, "a thoroughgoing skeptic [though] not an atheist", in Himmelfarb's estimation, dismissed the philosophes, who he said "preached the tenets of atheism with the bigotry of dogmatists, and damned all believers with ridicule and contempt. The priest, who fits the usual Hollywood stereotype of men of the cloth as rigid dogmatists, is first introduced to the audience as a calloused, short-tempered pastor who hurls a vulgar expletive at Frankie and tells him to stop coming to church. One suspects that dogmatists have simply become so accustomed to dogmatizing that appealing to the Bible is just their way of asserting the truth of their opinion, from wherever they got it. |
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