Quotes About Dogma

Belief passes, but to have believed never passes.     18

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something he can see and feel.

You don't have to be stupid to be a Christian, ... but it probably helps.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

you can't reason with fanatics anyway. They believe what they believe because they believe it. It's a matter of faith. Even if you could bring them all the proof in the world they still wouldn't change their minds

I do not believe," whispered Father Sunder, "in any God that considers love to be a sin.

The great curse of theology and ecclesiasticisim has always been their tendency to sacrifice large interests to small: Charity to Creed, Unity to Uniformity, Fact to Tradition, Ethics to Dogma.

I cannot revere compromise; I cannot revere pragmatism; I long for ideologues.

There is no gospel of atheism. Atheists don't pray at the altar of a Richard Dawkins poster.

People talk about preaching to the converted, which is total codswallop rubbish. There is no such thing as being converted forever - absolutely no such thing.

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.

When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.

The entire intelligence community is so bloated and so reliant on contractors. There's no question there's many tasks that make sense to outsource, and yet, we have followed blindly this dogma that if it's private contracting, it must be better.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?

Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods.

Religion's greatest trick wasn't making some people believe there was a God, it was telling you you shouldn't ever ridicule the ide, that it was sacred, to question this dogma> And of course it's not. As a scieentist,philosopher and comic that is something that is really important to me. NOTHING is sacrad.

The Age of Faith: and by 'faith' understand the denial of all scientific reasoning.

Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.