Quotes About Dogma

Organized religion is good for wars, battles, pissin' and moanin' and not much else.

The world of fundamental religion does not recognize even the slightest variation in meaning should this meaning fall outside its own definition of truth.

But I mind fanatics, the ones who try to impose their beliefs on you.

Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realising — not in believing, but in being and becoming.

Do not criticise others, for all doctrines and all dogmas are good; but show them by your lives that religion is no matter of books and beliefs, but of spiritual realisation.

There has been more bloodshed in the name of God than for any other cause, because people never went to the fountain-head; they were content only to give a mental assent to the customs of their forefathers, and wanted others to do the same.

In the past, secularists sought to challenge dogma by the use of rational argument, claiming, for example, that miracles described in the Bible are scientifically impossible.

The Pyrrhonian skeptics were docile citizens who followed customs and traditions whenever possible, but taught themselves to systematically doubt everything, and thus attain a level of serenity. But while conservative in their habits, they were rabid in their fight against dogma.

Those who think religion is about "belief" don't understand religion, and don't understand belief.

Normative Economics is like religion without the aesthetics.

Many of them blindly believe in it.

people look for books that support their mental program.

I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish.

Never trust a man who thinks his religion gives him all the answers.

Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.

Religion is the root of so much misery in the world, and I've always thought there is lack of criticism against it.

I think religion is a mistake - I'm exhausted by its self-righteousness. I think atheists should start screaming for attention like religious folks do.

There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry.

I don't believe any more that WBC has a monopoly on truth.

Historically, more people have died of religion than cancer.

If you have strongly held opinions, you are opinionated; if you don't, you lack conviction: either way, there is something wrong with you.

the dogma of hard work—which is deeply embedded in contemporary notions of what it means to be American—is what keeps us toiling and keeps us happy to be exploited in this way.

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

Religion is nothing but institutionalized mysticism. The catch is, mysticism does not lend itself to institutionalization. The moment we attempt to organize mysticism, we destroy its essence. Religion, then, is mysticism in which the mystical has been killed. Or, at least diminished.