Quotes About Dogma

monotheists have usually believed that they are in possession of the entire message of the one and only God, they have been compelled to discredit all other religions. Over

This is the God of the Crusaders and jihadists, of the inquisitors, misogynists, and homophobes. This is the God we talk about when we stand around a burning pyre, hurling stones and abuses at the heretics being grilled there.

Followers of every religion are convinced that theirs alone is true. Perhaps the followers of one religion are correct.

Dayananda's contemporary, Pope Pius IX, had much more conservative views about women, but shared Dayananda's admiration for superhuman authority. Pius led a series of reforms in Catholic dogma and established the novel principle of papal infallibility, according to which the Pope can never err in matters of faith (this seemingly medieval idea became binding Catholic dogma only in 1870, eleven years after Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species).

In contrast, over the course of the next 1,500 years, Christians slaughtered Christians by the millions to defend slightly different interpretations of the religion of love and compassion.

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.

Much of that which passes for conversation these days is the lobbing of small bombs of dogma and little clots of banality at one another.

Nothing can be more violent and merciless than a group of true believers, no matter what they choose to believe.

Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.

Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.

It became clear to us early on that Catholic dogma was pretty much a fairy story concocted to satisfy the incurious masses, and we were buying none of it.

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

Knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith.

By identifying the new learning with heresy, you make orthodoxy synonymous with ignorance.

Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.

But my overriding goal all along has been a quest for truth—no matter where it may lie, and no matter what inherited dogmas may need to be abandoned in order to attain it.

The Communist dogma that the end justifies all means was also doing much harm. It had thrown the door wide open to the worst human passions, and discredited the ideals of the Revolution. The

To inculcate Catholicism in the mind of the child until it is nine years of age is to ruin it forever for any other idea

Mais les dogmes bolcheviks et l'étatisme communiste ont constitué un obstacle fatal aux activités créatrices du peuple. La caractéristique fondamentale de la psychologie bolchevik était sa méfiance envers les masses.

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

The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ.

For though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious. The true believer is everywhere on the march, and both by converting and antagonizing he is shaping the world in his own image.

in order to be effective a doctrine must not be understood, but has rather to be believed in. We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.