Quotes About Dogma

Upon that basis the first Grand Lodge was founded, and upon that basis Masonry rests today-holding that a unity of spirit is better than a uniformity of opinion, and that beyond the great and simple "religion in which all men agree" no dogma is worth a breach of charity

The problem with organized religions, Bill Wilson once explained, "is their claim how confoundedly right all of them are.

I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I would be with the people. I know this, I see it printed in the night sky that I, eclectic dissembler of doctrine and psychoanalyst of dogma, howling like one possessed, will assault the barricades or the trenches , will take my bloodstained weapon, and consumed with fury, slaughter any enemy who falls into my hands.

Most of the human race, by one means or other, are prepossessed with principles opposed to the religion of reason.

thoughts aren't the problem. Problems only develop when thoughts no longer arise from or refer to actual experience. That's when thoughts start ossifying into their own bureaucratic institutions, becoming assumptions and dogma.

Religion is just mind control.

Religion is all bunk.

The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.

Religion is dangerous because it allows human beings who don't have all the answers to think that they do.

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

The very idea that we get a moral compass from religion is horrible. Not only should we not get our moral compass from religion, as a matter of fact we don't.

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

I'm religiously opposed to religion.

Communism was meant to be an alternative religion.

All the religions are basically good, but there's something about organised religion that leads to corruptness and poison.

In all the antique religions, mythology takes the place of dogma; that is, the sacred lore of priests and people... and these stories afford the only explanation that is offered of the precepts of religion and the prescribed rules of ritual.

All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.

Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.

All religions are, in some basic sense, irrational.

In a way, I think science is the modern religion, and at times, I despise it as much as I despise other religions because it really will only accept stuff that fits its masculine ability to define the world.

All organized religions are basically the same.

Across the globe, fundamentalists of all religions are on one side, and their attitudes towards women and towards female sexuality are almost identical.