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Thread #131699   Message #2985111
Posted By: Stringsinger
12-Sep-10 - 12:45 PM
Thread Name: BS: The God Delusion 2010
Subject: RE: BS: The God Delusion 2010
"//First of all, josep, you have an air of professorial certitude about your assertions and how they prove things that verges on the authoritarian,//



1 : of, relating to, or favoring blind submission to authority *had authoritarian parents*
2 : of, relating to, or favoring a concentration of power in a leader or an elite not constitutionally responsible to the people *an authoritarian regime*
–authoritarian noun
–au£thor£i£tar£i£an£ism \-*-*-*ni-z*m\ noun

Now if you can show how that word applies, I'd be much obliged."

I think authoritarian also applies to a certitude that what one believes is correct regardless
of any extenuating arguments to the contrary. In a sense, this is a blind submission to
the authority of opinion. The definition includes an unwillingness to concede to any point that runs contrary to one's own and falls under the classification of dogma.