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Quotes About Dogma

The more intense has been the religion of any period and the more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs.
~ Bertrand Russell
Christianity is such a silly religion.
~ Gore Vidal
No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.
~ Bertrand Russell
A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma.
~ Swami Vivekananda
No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
The church has never been asked to explain anything, our speciality, along with ballistics, has always been the neutralisation of the overly curious mind through faith.
~ Jose Saramago
The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.
~ Sam Harris
Patriotism is a superstition, one far more injurious, brutal and inhumane than religion.
~ Gustave Herve
To be Catholic puts a lot of fear in you. It's a great religion, but also one that can limit your experience. You fear experience because everything is a sin.
~ Donatella Versace
Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?
~ John Adams
Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
~ Will Rogers
Organized religions by their very natures are misleading.
~ Frank Zappa
Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.
~ Steve Hackett
Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service.
~ Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.
~ Steve Earle
Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.
~ Deepak Chopra
Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.
~ Stendhal
No religion but blasphemes a little.
~ Victor Hugo
I don't approve of religion.
~ Ayn Rand
The motive of fear is the be-all and end-all of religion.
~ H. L. Mencken
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.
~ William Ralph Inge
Religion is insanity by consensus.
~ Bill Maher