Ask Difference

Bigot vs. Dogma — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Bigot and Dogma

ADVERTISEMENT

Definitions

Bigot

One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.

Dogma

Dogma in the broad sense is any belief held with undefended certainty. It may be in the form of an official system of principles or doctrines of a religion, such as Roman Catholicism, Judaism, or Protestantism, or atheism, as well as the positions of a philosopher or of a philosophical school such as Stoicism.

Bigot

One who is narrow-mindedly devoted to their own ideas and groups, and intolerant of (people of) differing ideas, races, genders, religions, politics, etc.

Dogma

A doctrine or a corpus of doctrines relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth in an authoritative manner by a religion.

Bigot

(obsolete) One who is overly pious in matters of religion, often hypocritically or else superstitiously so.
ADVERTISEMENT

Dogma

A principle or statement of ideas, or a group of such principles or statements, especially when considered to be authoritative or accepted uncritically
"Much education consists in the instilling of unfounded dogmas in place of a spirit of inquiry" (Bertrand Russell).

Bigot

A hypocrite; esp., a superstitious hypocrite.

Dogma

An authoritative principle, belief or statement of opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true and indisputable, regardless of evidence or without evidence to support it.

Bigot

A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion.
To doubt, where bigots had been content to wonder and believe.

Dogma

A doctrine (or set of doctrines) relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth authoritatively by a religious organization or leader.
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.
ADVERTISEMENT

Bigot

Bigoted.
In a country more bigot than ours.

Dogma

That which is held as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine.
The obscure and loose dogmas of early antiquity.

Bigot

A prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own

Dogma

A formally stated and authoritatively settled doctrine; a definite, established, and authoritative tenet.

Dogma

A doctrinal notion asserted without regard to evidence or truth; an arbitrary dictum.

Dogma

A religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof

Dogma

A doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative;
He believed all the Marxist dogma

Popular Comparisons

Featured Comparisons

Trending Comparisons

New Phrases