Quotes About Dogma

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than to fight against knowledge.

It's rather simple. God deliver us from people who know so little that they will kill for what little they know.

I'm a Catholic, and not because I just happened to wake up as a Catholic. I'm not going to be persuaded on any topic, especially not that.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.

I think the new spirituality will be a spirituality that's not based on a particular dogma. And that steps away from the old spiritual paradigm that we have created on this planet, which comes from a thought that there is such a thing as being better.

There is such a thing as fanaticism, it is always wrong, and if you disagree, you're wrong too.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith. The reliance on authority measures the decline of religion, the withdrawal of the soul. The position men have given to Jesus, now for many centuries of history, is a position of authority. It characterizes themselves.

their creeds a disease of the intellect.

I think that our popular theology has gained in decorum, and not in principle, over the superstitions it has displaced.

All religions are not the same. All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are the same. At the heart of every religion is an uncompromising commitment to a particular way of defining who God is or is not and accordingly, of defining life's purpose.

The resulting inability or even desire to reason and think through an idea logically is demonstrated by one-liners such as "I'm not into 'isms.

The end result is spirituality without dogma, religion without God, argument without substance, rationalization without rationality, and tranquillity by transfer of funds from the seeker's bank account to the company that makes the best offer of nirvana, at the same time producing dogmatism about relativism in matters of ultimate meaning.

Chinese proverb says, "If you want to know what water is, don't ask the fish." Most Hindus know little about Hinduism's scriptures or its development in dogma. Most Buddhists know little about Buddhism. Religion is much more a culture to most people than it is a carefully thought-through system of truth. Even Islam finds the same ignorance. Dare I say most Christians know very little about the teaching and history of their own beliefs.

Without the undergirding of love, the possessor of any conviction becomes obnoxious, and the dogma believed becomes repulsive to the one who disagrees with it.

Sometimes religion can be the greatest roadblock to true spirituality. The

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

The minute you get a religion you stop thinking, he said. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.

When we have too much faith, we can become dogmatic, attached to our own views. And we can see all too often how this blind belief leads to so much conflict and suffering in the world.

Quero acreditar que todos continuam sendo crentes; mas não é você (padre) quem mantém a sua fé; eles mantêm a fé por superstição e por medo.

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

every uncompromising ideology reduces faith to an idolatry

People religious enough to want to live in a world dominated by faith were also religious enough to guard their souls against doctrinal error, which logically meant suppressing, persecuting, or killing those who might corrupt even minor details of doctrine. 

Full sexual consciousness and a natural regulation of sexual life mean the end of mystical feelings of any kind. In other words, natural sexuality is the deadly enemy of mystical religion. The church, by making the fight over sexuality the center of its dogmas and of its influence over the masses, confirms this concept.