Quotes About Dogma

The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion.

Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.

How many evils have flowed from religion.

I'm an atheist, and I believe religion is totally against human rights and women's rights.

It seemed there was always a close correlation between true believers and high body counts.

Religion turned some folks belligerent.

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

So much organized religion, in my opinion, ends up being life-denying.

There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

Jesus was always challenging the dogma of religion. So, you know, it's not like I'm out there by myself.

Religion is collective insanity.

I'm not really a fan of organized religion.

Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion.

Since the Enlightenment, popular religion has rejected the Enlightenment path and transformed itself into a bastion of resistance against reason.

Religion began as a natural explanation of the universe. The problem started when people refused to accept new evidence.

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies.

My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions; while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ[.

The religion itself may have some great ideas, but I can't take it seriously if it's blatantly exclusionary.

the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.

Religion is not so bad, unless you believe it.

No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.

What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: it must be "contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.

The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.