Quotes About Dogma

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true.

Who shall argue with the most stubborn of all bigotries, — the fanaticism of unbelief?

My karma ran over your dogma.

The chief trouble with the Churches is that they cannot make the truth about this world fit in with their theology.

Religion was about ritual rather than belief.

Give priests power and they soon start persecuting anyone who disagrees with them.

The greatest evil occurs when people, no matter what their aims or their motives, become utterly convinced that they are right.

The greatest evil occurs when people, no matter what their aims or their motives, become utterly convinced that they are right. [Atticus PÅ«nd]

He'd believe anything provided it's not in Holy Scripture.

A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.

I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.

Sometimes there is dogma in baking and sometimes there is not - you just have to know when to break the rules and when to follow them.

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

There is no bigotry like that of 'free thought' run to seed.

There are fundamentalist psychopaths in every religion in the world. Every single one.

Christianity isn't the only group that has fundamentalists.

I've about given up on the fundamentalists, who have become so legalistic and letter-bound to the Bible.

I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong.

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

Religion suppresses curiosity.

As with all priests, you learned early to call the truth heresy.

That was the thing he resented about religion, Bickel thought—the way it appealed to emotion rather than intelligence.