If someone professed to believe in Zeus/Jupiter, Hera/Juno, Apollo and all the rest,

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These are not areas where I expect people to be honest, even sometimes with themselves. Some might consider this dishonesty of the "white lie" variety, being diplomatic, trying not to offend, but dishonest nevertheless.

There may very well be a few people out there who really, deep down, at any level one chooses to examine, wouldn't blink twice if I said I believed in Zeus and Poseidon, but those people are going to be very rare, and probably fairly wacko themselves. The people who will politely mouth the words of total unquestioning acceptance, however, are going to be a lot more common.

I suspect some people try to make the niceties they say true about themselves by fiat, perhaps disappointed in themselves for not living up to their own ideals of inclusiveness, hoping that if they don't admit to their internal judgements they can make them go away.

The definition I linked to does not say anything about merely being opinionated or about making assumptions -- that I can readily admit is true. If you view the "authoritative" part of the definition as applicable here, you give me more credit for authority than I give myself. If you think that I've claimed anywhere that what I say is "absolutely true", point out where that occurs.

"Doctrine or a corpus of doctrines" doesn't apply to what I've said.

So yes, I stick with my claim that you are misusing the word "dogma". The more you continue to stick by your use of the word after all that has been shown and explained so far, the higher the probability of my being correct that your misuse is willful.