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Quotes About Dogma

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.
~ Catharine MacKinnon
The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.
~ Fidel Castro
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
~ H. L. Mencken
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
~ Mary Ritter Beard
No religion can be built on force.
~ George Sand
I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.
~ Erica Jong
I think there's nothing about evolution in the Bible; I think this is a statement of religious insecurity. But people have their beliefs.
~ Peter Agre
It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society, it is belief. -George Bernard Shaw
~ Thomas E. Kida
we believe certain things because they ought to be true.
~ Thomas Gilovich
Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed.
~ Thomas H. Huxley
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
~ Thomas Henry Huxley
Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.
~ Thomas Huxley
On the dogmas of religion, as distinguished from moral principles, all mankind, from the beginning of the world to this day, have been quarreling, fighting, burning and torturing one another, for abstractions unintelligible to themselves and to all others, and absolutely beyond the comprehension of the human mind.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.
~ Thomas Moore
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
~ Thomas Paine
What is it the Bible teaches us? — repine, cruelty, and murder. What is it the Testament teaches us? — to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married; and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.
~ Thomas Paine
It has happened, that all the answers that I have seen to the former part of 'The Age of Reason' have been written by priests: and these pious men, like their predecessors, contend and wrangle, and understand the Bible; each understands it differently, but each understands it best; and they have agreed in nothing but in telling their readers that Thomas Paine understands it not .
~ Thomas Paine
the person they call Jesus Christ; begotten, they say, by a ghost, whom they call holy, on the body of a woman engaged in marriage, and afterwards married, whom they call a virgin, seven hundred years after this foolish story was told; a theory which, speaking for myself, I hesitate not to believe
~ Thomas Paine
they carry the ideas they form of the benevolence of the Almighty to the book which they have been taught to believe was written by his authority. Good heavens! it is quite another thing, it is a book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy;
~ Thomas Paine
H?ristiyan inanc?n?n destekçileri ya da taraftarlar? inanmasa ya da kabul etmese de cehalet dönemi H?ristiyanl?k sistemiyle baÅŸlam??t?r
~ Thomas Paine
religions are merely the garments of faith—and very ill cut they often are
~ Thornton Wilder
I'm an atheist - a good old North Korean-style atheist.
~ Jim Crace
Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
~ Umberto Eco