Quotes About Dogma

So often, it seems, that willful ignorance is, now, the default position for absolute certainty. Dudley Sharp, 2019

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.

In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

The difference between my beliefs and having a religious faith is that I am prepared to change my views in light of new evidence, but someone of a religious faith will just stick their fingers in the ears and say: 'I'm not listening, there's nothing you can say that will make me change my mind.

The same people who say they're against organized religion are all card-carrying members of the Church of Universal Human Equality, which is perhaps the best organized, most well-funded, and least tolerant mythological system on Earth. I don't even think Islam can compete.

The Jesuits are a secret society formed within the Catholic Church to protect its dogma.

Religious fervor has been known to lead mankind down some pretty disastrous paths in the past.

These days too many of us seem inclined to cover our ears, close our eyes, and blindly follow the most narrow, conservative tenets of religion or else seek comfort in the ancient traditions of New Age ritual.

I couldn't understand the mindless acceptance of dogma, an acceptance people were quick to call faith.

All of us, whether we are ignorant of philosophy or professors of philosophy, find it easier to follow dogma than to think.

One of the reasons why fundamentalists are so aggressive in trying to promote fundamentalism is because deep down they know it's arbitrary. If you're comfortable with your belief you don't need to convince other people to agree with you.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

Dogma not only blinds its protagonist, but it muzzles all other opposition.

Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas.

Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.

It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism.

Those who believe that they have absolute truth and the only moral system are destructive both to themselves and to those whom they try to convert.

I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.