Quotes About Dogma

All holy books are, above all, great stories whose plots deal with the basic aspects of human nature, setting them within a particular moral context and a particular framework of supernatural dogma. -Andreas Corelli

Fear is the gunpowder and hatred is the fuse. Dogma, the final ingredient, is only a lighted match.

Dogma must form part of identity itself. Whoever questions it is our enemy. He is evil. And it is our right and our duty to confront and destroy him.

Nothing arouses a passion for dogma more than a good antagonist.

The first step towards believing passionately is fear. Fear of losing our identity, our life, our status or our beliefs. Fear is the gunpowder and hatred is the fuse. Dogma, the final ingredient, is only a lighted match.

todas las ideologías y los credos, sin distinción, son inflamaciones inducidas del pensamiento. Simulacros.

Cuz all they have is bigotry and they're calling it Christianity.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Christianity is] the most ... perverted system that ever shone on man.

I have examined all the known superstitions of the world,and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. Millions of innocent men women and children since the introduction of Christianity,have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth.

The formal religions are often overdone, with useless formalities, immature psychological notions, and pompous authorities.

Another dogma among gun control supporters is that having a gun in the home for self-defense is futile and is only likely to increase the chances of your getting hurt or killed. Your best bet is to offer no resistance to an intruder, according to this dogma. Actual research tells just the opposite story. People who have not resisted have gotten hurt twice as often as people who resisted with a firearm. Those who resisted without a firearm of course got hurt the most often.

These people are dangerous because they think they are doing this because a god wants them to do it. It means they don't have to think like humans

The really dangerous people are not the great heretics and unbelievers, but the swarm of petty thinkers, the rationalizing intellectuals, who suddenly discover how irrational all religious dogmas are. Anything not understood is given short shrift, and the highest values of symbolic truth are irretrievably lost. What can a rationalist do with the dogma of the virgin birth, or with Christ's sacrificial death, or the Trinity?

Belief in dogma is an equally unavoidable stop-gap which must sooner or later be replaced by adequate understanding and knowledge if our civilization is to continue.

justifying their positions in the name of God, men silence God.

Doctrines are the high-voltage center of the faith.

In a religion where logic alone rules, there is no power.

Is freedom "the bare privilege of not being chained?" he asked. "If this is all, then freedom is a bitter mockery, a cruel delusion, and it may well be questioned whether slavery were not better. Let us not commit ourselves to the absurd and senseless dogma that the color of the skin shall be the basis of suffrage, the talisman of liberty." Garfield

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

Religion is still the very best way to get someone to accept something unabashedly ridiculous.

Perhaps the most effective dogma of medieval Christianity was its persistent and pervasive disparagement of sexual desire as something polluted and inherently evil. Ordinary men and women may not have grasped the subtle theological arguments and distinctions of Augustine and Aquinas, but they did come to understand that sex was shameful.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.