Can I please change one word from the line? from create to need?

We need our own dogma . . . to carry us forward . . . to change/improve the life conditions of deaf people all over the world . . .

Understanding and propagating dogmas – how it can be used and abused – is delicate. Sacredness in being deaf and celebrate it is WHAT WE NEED. Deaf spirituality, sacred literature, sacred traditions, sacred language, and more.

To carry us collectively into a new “sacred” realm – to create more harmoniousness in the souls of deaf people everywhere. “Pushing” for it can be helped by creating a dogma/dogmas or simply “dogma”.

Dogma? How?

It lies in creating new sacred literature. It lies in creating new vocabularies and concepts in our deafhood (and other) discourses. It lies in finding what is sacred to be deaf: to sign, to speak, or both – all sacred. And more.

I just reread portions of Paddy’s book again and came across deaf spirituality. And now something from you, Ocean. We do feel the surge of something new.

Let’s do what we feel – and propel us into new realm of the future.

Since most of the Deaf community in the West follow the Judeo-Christian traditions, and many Deaf blogs have been on religious themes, I would think that we could end up with a generalist view that embraces all spiritual philosophies since all have a common theme.

One that we too often forget. “Do unto others….”