Quotes About Dogma

the strenuous and dogmatic is the moral enemy of the good.

Nothing fucks up a religion like an intervention from a real God.

No religion is perfect, not after man gets through with it.

Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

Las herejías son siempre expresión del hecho concreto de que existen excluidos.

For what I was to see at the abbey would make me think that it is often inquisitors who create heretics.

No, among Catholics one did not question the purity of the Holy Virgin, and among Nazis one didn't question the honor of the Führer.

Rien n'est tel que le dogme pour enfanter le rêve. Et rien n'est tel que le rêve pour engendrer l'avenir. Utopie aujourd'hui, chair et os demain.

O ódio ao ensino dos filhos do povo era um dogma.

We are equally far removed from the hosanna of Joseph de Maistre, who wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, who even goes so far as to ridicule the cross.

As we let a hundred dogmatic iterations of reality bloom, the eventual result was an anything-goes relativism that extends beyond religion to almost every kind of passionate belief: If I think it's true, no matter why or how I think it's true, then it's true, and nobody can tell me otherwise. That's the real-life reductio ad absurdum of American individualism. And it would become a credo of Fantasyland.

Wasn't that what religions did? Squint at one another and declare, 'My unprovable belief is better than your unprovable belief. Suck it.

but wasn't that what religions did? Squint at one another and declare, "My unprovable belief is better than your unprovable belief. Suck it.

pero ¿no era aquello lo que hacían las religiones? Mirarse con desconfianza unas a otras y afirmar: «Mi creencia indemostrable es mejor que tu creencia indemostrable. Chúpate esa».

All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.

Fundamentalismus, so könnte man sagen, ist eine religiös versperrte Sicht auf die Welt.

Sexual religion is the opiate of the supermenial.

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

La ortodoxia de la razón idiotiza a la humanidad mucho más que cualquier religión. Karl Kraus

Wars have always started over religion.

I began to see that for some, religion was just a form of politics you couldn't criticize.

Zacz??am dostrzega?, ?e dla niektórych religia stanowi po prostu formÄ™ polityki, której nie wolno krytykowa?.

began to see that for some, religion was just a form of politics you couldn't criticize.

There is no God but Fact, and Mr. Everhard is its prophet