Quotes About Dogma

When people decide that a certain way of faith is destined and inevitable, hatred and intolerance follow. Instead of saying, 'The Light is within you, choose the Light,' the message becomes 'Agree with our version of history or we'll kill you.

Superstition may be defined as constructive religion which has grown incongruous with intelligence.

My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior -- BEFORE the Reformation.

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

But when people are used to believing a thing is such-and-such a way, and the preachers want them to believe that that's the way it is; it's trouble you get, not thanks, for upsetting their ideas.

If something is presented as an accepted truth, alternative ways of thinking do not even come up for consideration.

But the real problem was that the treatment was based around the Alcoholics Anonymous 12-step programme, and as soon as my counsellor started talking to me about God, I flipped out. I didn't want to know about religion: religion was dogma, it was bigotry, it was the Moral Majority and people like Jerry Falwell saying that AIDS was God's judgement on homosexuals

Religion is the incinerator of the soul -

Religiile, ca ÅŸi ideologiile care le-au moÅŸtenit viciile, nu sunt decât cruciade împotriva umorului.

The evolving absolute, Hegel's heresy, has become our dogma, our tragic orthodoxy, the philosophy of our reflexes.

A man who loves his god unduly forces other men to love his god, eager to exterminate them if they refuse.

Încetezi s? exiÈ™ti în orice regim, religios sau politic, care suprim? erezia, voinÈ›a de a merge contra dogmei sau a curentului.

While the root of all the absurdities that torment the world, belief in God, remains intact, it will never fail to bring forth new offspring.

Faith that denies fact is fanaticism

Once the divinity of doctrine has been questioned there is no return to perfect faith.

Inventive rhetoric is characteristic of true believers.

Duty is the faculty of doing freely, and if necessarily, forcibly, that which is imposed on man by God. It is a dogma, and must be accepted as an irrational verity. We can have our rights and demand liberty on no other condition.

There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

All we would need to do would be to read the Bible and accept what it says as what really happened. That, of course, is the approach to the Bible that fundamentalists take. And that's one reason why you will not find fundamentalists at the forefront of critical scholarship.

Fundamentalists have their heads in the sand.

My frustration has always been that I'm a Christian, but I don't buy into, never have bought into, the belief that Jesus and God are these men who just dictate that this is how you have to live your life or you are going to burn in hell.

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.