Quotes About Dogma

Religion is an irrational construct.

All beliefs are bald ideas.

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

Marx's work has often been dismissed as 'crude dogma', usually by people who give no evidence of having read him.

I'm a very spiritual person," she likes to say, for instance. Like when she's explaining how she hates religion and all those who practice it. Well, okay, if it makes you feel better, Carol.

John knew that if you push the so-called Sola Scriptura Calvinist approach and the "inerrancy" ideas to their absurd limit, all real study of the Bible stops. It becomes a magical text. It is no longer open to interpretation. Dogma replaces study, because scholarship can only be meaningful when you are allowed to ask real questions and let the chips fall where they may. It

their official religious absolutes, the higher call was to ignore what the Bible said in favor of what they hoped it meant.

The enemy of science is not religion... . The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.

It is of course quite a different matter when a seeker, no longer satisfied with materialism or dogma and yearning for spiritual nourishment, asks an initiate for advice and enlightenment. In such an instance the initiate is duty bound to enlighten the seeker in accordance with his perceptive faculties. The magician should spare neither time nor effort to communicate his spiritual treasures to the seeker and lead him towards the light.

Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand.

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

It's only when people believe that their beliefs are above questioning, that their beliefs alone are beyond all doubt, that they can be as truly horrible as we all know they can be.

Mate, it ain't violence if it's religion.

Tradition is the blind witness they use to condemn us

It seemed so odd that faith should so be sacrificed in the name of religion.

He was religious, but had refrained from allowing his religious ideals to be obscured by a god.

A blue dog, you know, is the opposite of a yellow dog. And a yellow dog was somebody who was willing to follow his party even when he knew it was wrong.

It's wrong to treat Muslims as if they will never find their John Stuart Mill. Christianity and Judaism show people can be very dogmatic and then open up.

The religious definition of truth is not that it is universal but that it is absolute.

Divinity retains the appearance of insight, when in reality it celebrates ignorance. Its tenets are so much clay, and when the clay sets, it becomes dogma.

An ideologue is one who places agenda above truth.

Religion was created for the goodness of the humanity, butreligious dogma converts a good person to an evil person.

We're bound by our desire to be right.

Not God, but man-made gods kill, by self-will.