Quotes About Dogma

Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."

Proof' is the hallmark of religion.

It is not proven, it's not science. It's more of a religion than a science.

As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

Are we truly committed to the notion that ideals and values vary and alter in accordance with changing conditions? Should we not question such a relativistic dogma? Is not the degree of our sensitivity to the validity of the ultimate ideals and values that fluctuates rather than the ultimate ideals and values?

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

Virtue loses its majesty when it morphs to dogma.

positivists were people without firm moral commitments and therefore without any means of resisting the dogmatic certainties of communism and fascism.

We all get stuck in our belief systems, however sensible we think they are. To me, the New Age community is particularly guilty of not testing or challenging what it claims.

Religion seems to have twisted the idea of God into a way to control people.

The implication of nonconformity is intolerable to Communists.

It is like a kingdom. It is the same old thing, just a different name, to keep the peasants in line. A system of the higher ups against the little people. They believe that there is only their God, and that all the others are evil. That there is only one way to be good, and that is the way they teach. And if you do not follow their instructions you will be damned for eternity.

The mystic attempts to overcome dogma, insisting that God, Christ and heaven are not 'up there' but are to be found in the heart by desire, by love, by the will; that is, by a path of inner purification.

When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense.

Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.

The problem I had with understanding Catholicism was that it seemed like there were loopholes everywhere. In my young brain, I couldn't quite grasp how there could be any loopholes with the very strict set of rules they gave us. It really confused me. I began to wonder how I could follow these rules when I didn't even know what they truly meant.

Metric fixation, which aspires to imitate science, too often resembles faith.

Die Idee, dass man die Wahrheit auf dem Weg des Denkens finden könne, führt nicht nur zum Dogma, sondern auch zur Wissenschaft.

The authoritarian character worships the past. What has been, will eternally be. To wish or to work for something that has not yet been before is crime or madness. The miracle of creation—and creation is always a miracle—is outside of his range of emotional experience.