Dogma vs Tenets - What's the difference?
dogma | tenets |
An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true regardless of evidence, or without evidence to support it.
A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader.
* Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism; at least it's an ethos. -Walter Sopchak (The Big Lebowski, 1998)
As nouns the difference between dogma and tenets
is that dogma is while tenets is .dogma
English
(wikipedia dogma)Noun
(en-noun)- ''The unforgiving dogma of Stalinism is that what the party leader, however cruel and incompetent, decrees, however absurd, must be accepted as law.
- In the Catholic Church, new dogmas can only be declared by the pope after the extremely rare procedure ''ex cathedra'' to make them part of the official faith.
