When we find ourselves among various claims about our reality, even though they all say different things, a common pattern can be observed in their core.
This pattern is what can be called dogma: beliefs held without careful examination or questioning, often passed down regardless of evidence.
Noticing this pattern is the first step in understanding how ideas—whether philosophical, religious, or spiritual—can quietly shape, limit, or even mislead our minds.
For instance, we would never see a meeting where the leaders of all worldviews come together and try to combine their knowledge and wisdom to find the real truth about our existential questions. Rather, they are not interested in that, because they think their belief is already the true one and may not want to admit that it is, in fact, built on unquestionable dogmas.
It is common that the speakers and preachers of beliefs are usually very self-assured and charismatic, so if someone listens long enough, they may start to believe as well. But they never speak about the things that make their belief collapse, or things they cannot explain or don’t even attempt to explain.
They present things in a way that everything about their belief makes sense. Usually, they also have a lot of followers, who accept their belief and all confirm it as the truth.
How can all the different beliefs that contradict each other be true at the same time?
What is explained above may be obvious for religions or cults, but the mainstream worldview imposed on us in today's world, coming with the promise of free thinking, is also not so different. The belief that everything in our existence can be explained through natural processes, and that the harmony and order we observe doesn’t necessitate an intelligent source.
Similar to the preachers of various beliefs, there are also preachers of this worldview, motivated to explain everything in materialistic ways, rejecting all other beliefs and claiming they are the smart ones who don’t believe in anything unseen.
They will also only tell you the things that sound reasonable, but they will never speak about the countless details that nature cannot generate itself, which in reality collapse this way of thinking. This belief in fact has always existed, even in ancient times and no matter which of its claims have been rejected, it is still is alive.
For example, it was built on the assumption that the universe has always existed and therefore requires no explanation. But when science discovered that it in fact has a beginning, the dogma lived on. Similarly, it was built on the assumption of how simple life is and how easily living beings can emerge from dead matter. However, no matter what incredible complexity about even the simplest life forms has been discovered by modern science, which seems to scream intelligent control, it has made no difference. It only led to more attempts to explain it through random and uncontrolled mechanisms.
You may not know this, but they even had to reject the existence of free will, because there is no way to explain it materialistically.
No matter what kind of belief we have happened to accept, did we actually let the others do the thinking for us instead of using our own brains, which are as smart as anyone elses?
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