Namaste Believer,
Your assumption is wrong that by calling a Sampradaya dogmatic it is being portrayed in a negative light not so , it only means that when stating another Sampradaya as dogmatic we only say that questioning and inquiry into certain domains of that Sampradaya is not encouraged. Does not mean that it is belittling it. It also shows my disagreement with it but not necessarily belittling it. If a statement like "Vedas came from the mouth of Vishnu" is true for a Sampradaya and taken to be the final word for it. Obviously they will not even agree at looking at the statement from a rational perspective or they will say that logic cannot be applied here nor can it be verified. Hence such a statement if taken literally by that Sampradaya it is a dogma of that Sampradaya. Hence I find nothing wrong in calling such statements dogmatic. Dogma or dogmatic is not necessarily a negative connotation, it simply means that it is an uncompromising belief of that Sampradaya for which even if rationally is not acceptable is generally stated to be beyond reason.
However if you still feel that the word "dogma" is something negative then another term I would use is "story like" this will not necessarily be a negative connotation but it will only mean that if statements are made in such a way that both my reason and experience are not able to accept then I categorize it as "story like" the statements may be true but till they come to my experience such statements are just a story or "story like" to me.
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