Quotes About Dogma

If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.

The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs.

Religion is the retarded stepchild of philosophy.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.

There can be nothing more abominable than religion.

Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.

All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.

Religion poisons everything good in this world.

Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

For good people to do evil things, it takes religion.

In catholisism we have an entire religion based on a woman who really stuck to her story

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.

In religion, it is not the sycophants or those who cling most faithfully to the status quo who are ultimately praised. It is the insurgents.

The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.

Liberals hate religion because politics is a religion substitute for liberals and they can't stand the competition.

Religions are the cradles of despotism.

The priests of one religion never credit the miracles of another religion. Is this because priests instinctively know priests?

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.