Dogma

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This word has an extensive Catholic history but that’s for another episode perhaps. Δοκέιν (dokeen) is an Ancient Greek infinitive meaning ‘to think, to have an opinion’ a term still used today in modern Greek . But it also meant ‘to believe in something as the absolute truth’ and that’s the meaning we’re exploring today. In English the noun arrived in the 1600s through Latin and was solely associated with religion. In the 1800s it started getting popular and was used closer to the original meaning as ‘a philosophical tenet’. but it was between 1920 and 1940 that it got the meaning we know today. And the reasons were obvious. European thinkers, linking unshakable beliefs imposed on the population with authoritarian regimes . Such a practice and belief is called ΔΟΓΜΑ/DOGMA

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