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Quotes About Dogma

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Atheism is the absence of religion. We don't really need atheism. We just need to get rid of religion.
~ Penn Jillette
Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith.
~ H. P. Blavatsky
A truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion.
~ Khalil Gibran
In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
~ Alan Watts
I'm a Christian, but I don't believe in religion or anything like that.
~ Vanilla Ice
After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question...
~ Stephen Harper
Only religion can lead to such evil.
~ Lucretius
Religion is the worst thing that ever happened to mankind - the ironic part is that it's presented as a good thing, and its effect is absolutely catastrophic to individuals and to societies.
~ George Carlin
Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.
~ Richard Le Gallienne
If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man's belief in the Bible.
~ Voltaire
If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.
~ Ronald Knox
Nothing draws people more quickly away from religion than an open mind.
~ Hemant Mehta
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
~ Voltaire
Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Religious tolerance. No! Zero tolerance for any type of religion.
~ Doug Stanhope
It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.
~ Madonna Ciccone
The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither.
~ Steve McVey
The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.
~ John Stuart Mill
Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
~ H. L. Mencken
Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.
~ Sigmund Freud
He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.
~ Thomas Jefferson
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
~ Eric Hoffer
Religion has what is EASILY the greatest bullshit story of all time.
~ George Carlin