Perils of Dogmatism in Religion, Politics & Law

In law, when a case is argued in court, an extremely one-sided (dogmatic) view is taken by the prosecution, followed by a similar opposite view taken by the defence. Hopefully, the judge, after examining evidence, takes an even-handed view, deciding the case on its merits.

Unfortunately, a similar polarised view is taken in politics, with each party claiming it's infallibility & utter ulterior motives of the other parties. How ridiculous this is, becomes evident when even the much criticised "Papal Infallibility" is restricted only to theological affairs. This has gone to such an alarming extent that parties claim an ideal perfect country can be achieved only if other parties are exterminated, forgetting the fact that a responsible & strong opposition is the only protection against tyranny in a democracy.

Even in the case of religions, all religions agree about Divine Omnipotence & that everything occurs because of God's will, conveniently overlooking the fact that this  includes the creation of religions other than their own, for God's own inscrutable purposes. The very idea of a single "true religion" is absurd as all religions have supposedly evolved for different human needs at different countries at different times.

This lamentable way of thinking can be partly ascribed to the lack of reading habit, as without extensive reading of seminal books in all ouvres, one cannot make magisterial pronouncements as if one is  born omniscient.

Even if one does not want to follow Richard Dawkins, one can surely read Thomas Paine & Bertrand Russel!