Quotes About Dogma

The thing I hate about religion is, they ban what they have done and force us to do what they haven't done.

The book-learned preacher who carries the badge of authority, is by no means religious.

Religion poisons everything

Organised religion generally gets in the way of spiritual experience.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.

Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - live it.

You can't have a church town without belief and you can't have belief without intolerance.

Religion has kept all of us suffocated, I can't raise my voice you can't raise your voice, still they call us fundamentalists.

It is when we stop believing that religions have been handed down from above or else that they are entirely daft that matters become more interesting.

The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent.

I have always found the hardest mind to change is one that is religious.

Religion is poison because it asks us to give up our most precious faculty, which is that of reason, and to believe things without evidence. It then asks us to respect this, which it calls faith.

I am utterly fed up with the respect we have been brainwashed into bestowing upon religion.

I don't respect religon. I don't respect superstitious thinking and that is what religous is.

When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief.

Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex. Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.

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

Christians slaughtered Christians by the millions to defend slightly different interpretations of the religion of love and compassion.

Religion cannot be equated with superstition, because most people are unlikely to call their cherished beliefs 'superstitions'. We always believe in 'the truth'. It's only other people who believe in superstitions.

For religions, spirituality is a dangerous threat.

si sumamos todas las víctimas de todas estas persecuciones, resulta que en esos tres siglos los politeístas romanos mataron a no más que unos pocos miles de cristianos.1 Por el contrario, a lo largo de los siguientes 1.500 años, los cristianos masacraron a millones de correligionarios para defender interpretaciones ligeramente distintas de la religión del amor y la compasión.

Os seguidores de todas as religiões estão convencidos de que somente a sua é a verdadeira. Talvez os seguidores de uma única religião estejam certos.

capitalism too began as a very open-minded scientific theory but gradually solidified into a dogma. Many capitalists keep repeating the mantra "free markets and economic growth" irrespective of realities on the ground. No matter what awful consequences occasionally result from modernization, industrialization, or privatization, capitalist true believers dismiss them as mere "growing pains" and promise that everything will be made good through a bit more growth.

You may not agree with the idea that organisms are algorithms, and that giraffes, tomatoes and human beings are just different methods for processing data. But you should know that this is current scientific dogma, and it is changing our world beyond recognition.