Quotes About Dogma

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

los miembros de cada religión están convencidos de que su religión es la verdadera y todas las otras son falsas! Esta convicción conduce a los miembros de algunas religiones a tratar de convencer a otras personas a que compartan su teología.

Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.

But evangelicals are taught to pretend that there is no contradiction, because the Bible must not be questioned.

conclusion: evangelicalism was both incoherent and oppressive.

Well-defined theological convictions did not admit contrary viewpoints, for even the consideration of alternate possibilities ran contrary to the notion of faith.

Religion has no positive value.

Religionists want religion's placement on the pedestal of respect preserved by any means. But religion deserves no respect. Rather, it has earned scorn, ridicule, and in-your-face opposition, as have its trappings.

Religion hurts people.

My mind didn't clear. It had been clear before. Instead it muddled, suddenly ablaze with rioting factions of insecurities and dreams, a cacophonous battleground of conflicting moral codes and dogma. I was, therefore, back to normal.

Ideology is a ghetto where reason goes to die

If you really believed that God preserved you in order to see this scheme to fruition, you are even more delusional than I first thought," I said in considerable exasperation. "It is impossible to argue with a mind that does not admit scientific fact and relies instead upon dogma delivered by the hand of an invisible author.

They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.

For her, being Catholic isn't just about religion-it's about superstition and safekeeping and tradition.

Often religious education teaches us to conform and creates a psychological prison which is difficult to escape.

True education expands your imagination. False education fills your mind with dogma and makes you a prisoner of conformity.

No institution can become the cradle of leadership, until its teachers break their manacles of rugged dogmas.

Religion is a set of rituals.

My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Islam came to teach us that there is no faith without intelligence and here we are: destroying our intelligence in the name of faith.

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.

No country or people who are slaves to dogma and dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded.

Some people would rather that you die for their beliefs than that they re-examine those beliefs.