Quotes About Dogma

There's an elemental mystery to the universe: the why of things. Everyone is free to speculate. I speak not for atheism, but against compulsory theism, or compulsory dogma of any kind.

Nothing in the world is better suited to laziness than orthodoxy. If you gag your mouth, stop up your ears and put a blinder over your eyes, you can sleep peacefully.

Christianity is a religion. Not a political ideology.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

Some people, both scientists and religious people, deal with uncertainty by being certain. That is dangerous in the fundamentalists and it is dangerous in the fundamentalist scientists.

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

Any religion that cannot stand up to a modern scientific reasoning, and to rational proof, is asinine

Any scripture that demands irrefutable obedience must be discarded at once.

Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.

All great religions hold the power to enslave & the power to enlighten...

Truth respects no ism.

If you do not want others to laugh at your inherited god and faith, then, do not follow a hateful and stupid, a man-made sod and ism, mate.

I strongly believe that no one can be a true feminist without being an atheist. All religions are anti-women. No one can be pro-woman while supporting anti-woman dogmas.

Crimes spring from fixed ideas.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, — orthodoxy is my doxy, — heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

Every period ruled by mystics was an era of stagnation and want, when most men were on strike against existence.

All man-made religions are limited. I go my own way.

The Declaration of Independence was a denial, and the first denial of a nation, of the infamous dogma that God confers the right upon one man to govern others.

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

While the new Legionnaire man eliminated his enemies in the name of God, with a cross in his hand, the new Communist man eliminated God altogether and stood on His pedestal. They were both equally thirsty for blood.

Credere quia absurdum est

Fascism is not fashion.