10 EXAMPLES OF DOGMATISM IN EVERYDAY LIFE - CULTURE VOCABULARY - 2024

Dogmatism is a vision of life under a closed and limited scheme that restricts the actions and behaviors of a person or social group only under that model of approach.

There may be dogmatism in different fields such as religion, politics or in cultural customs or behavior.

Another characteristic of dogma is that they are presented as the only valid truth and its precepts and principles are indisputable for those who practice it or for outsiders.

10 outstanding examples of dogmatism in everyday life

1) Blood transfusions

There are religions that follow the precepts of the scriptures that they assume as sacred, which say that blood is sacred and contains life.

Therefore, giving blood transfusions to one of his believers would be like eating or ingesting it, which they consider wrong.

2) Prohibition of directing women

There are countries in the world that prohibit women from driving vehicles, because the mandates of their religion indicate that women cannot carry out this type of work.

3) Prohibition of eating certain foods

For some religions, animals are sacred or have a harmful essence for the body and soul.

For example, cows are sacred and therefore cannot be slaughtered for food. Another is the case of pork, which is considered harmful to the body.

4) Love relationships must be established under marriage

There are religious dogmas that indicate to their followers that for a loving relationship to be blessed they must be married by some ritual or ceremony, otherwise their rules would be violated.

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Within some religious currents, people, women in most cases, are ordered to wear certain types of clothing such as long skirts to the ankles to cover the legs or veils on the head to hide the hair.

6) Vegetarian or vegan diet

Other forms of dogmatic thinking view a vegetarian or vegan diet as the only way to live a life in balance with the environment.

7) Fasting

In certain religious groups, parishioners are ordered to avoid eating at certain times of the day or at certain times of the year.

8) Papal infallibility

Believing that the Pope is infallible is a dogmatic belief of Catholicism.

9) reincarnation

The belief in reincarnation is a dogma of the Hindu religion.

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