Quotes About Dogma

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful.

The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

Fundamentalists from every religion have to be replaced, have to be disempowered.

I'm against any religion, and Communism and Nazism - they're both equally religions. They're just replacement gods.

I love the spiritual side of religion, but the church, for me, is a place where I feel very repressed.

It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism.

When you think about how many wars are created through the word religion it's hard to identify with it, or even accept it.

The thing that I have a horror of is ideological theatre - Shakespeare never told us how to think.

How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don't see how that can become an ideology.

No ideology should ever get a pass simply because it is cloaked in a religious robe.

For the Left, when ideology and reality conflict, ideology must win.

The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man - and the dogma is the drama.

If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.

It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.

My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic.

The trouble with religious morality comes not from morality's being inescapably pure, but from religion's being incurably unintelligible.

By religion I mean a set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not intellectual

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer.

Belief in hell stifles all inquiry into truth by setting a premium on one form of belief, and by forbidding another under frightful penalties.

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.

Inquisition. But