Quotes About Dogma

True believers aren't real receptive to the idea that what they're telling you is just mythology.

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.

Religious people prefer to be right rather than be compassionate.

Fundamentalist faith was rooted in deep fear and anxiety that could not be assuaged by a purely rational argument.

Nous ne nous présentons pas au monde en doctrinaires avec un nouveau principe en lui disant: voici la vérité, c'est ici qu'il faut tomber à genoux. Des principes du monde nous tirons pour le monde des principes nouveaux.

I'm not religious anymore, but I think it's like papal infallibility, which is a ridiculous man-made tenet, like what I believe most religious tenets to be, are man-made after the fact.

While I love Mohammed and Jesus Christ'I reject all men's religions, not just Islam, but Christianity, Judaism and whatever else the men use for a whip.

Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.

Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.

I disbelieve all holy men and holy books.

The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small.

The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.

The apostle of Christianity and the infidel can meet without a chance of a quarrel; but it is never safe to bring together two men who differ about a saint or a surplice.

Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

The mullahs of the Islamic world and the mullahs of the Hindu world and the mullahs of the Christian world are all on the same side. And we are against them all.

Superstition is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse.

Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees.

Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.

One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours.

If we are immortal, it is a fact of nature, and that fact does not depend on bibles, on Christs, priest, or creeds.

No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation.