Quotes About Dogma

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual.

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

The mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.

That's the funny thing about religion: it doesn't matter what you say, you're going to upset someone.

In its more authoritarian forms, religion punishes questioning and rewards gullibility. Faith is not a function of stupidity, but a frequent cause of it.

This is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.

God save us from religion.

Religion fosters servility and solipsism.

Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.

I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.

In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.

Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.

For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.

God is something that needs rescuing from religion.

The Bible itself is intolerant, and true followers of God's word should be as well.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Catholicism is contrary to human liberty. Catholicism bases salvation upon belief. Catholicism teaches man to trample his reason under foot. And for that reason it is wrong.

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

Most true believers, when faced with evidence that contradicts their beliefs, will hold on to those beliefs even more strongly.

For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.

Revealed religion has no weight with me.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.