Quotes About Dogma

There is no one as intolerant as an open minded liberal.

To be a heretic to-day is almost a human obligation.

As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense.

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.

To me, religion is the reason there is so much conflict in this world, and I think it's just so unnecessary to believe in this blue-eyed, white-bearded, white-haired God.

Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith.

The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.

Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think religion stops people from thinking. I think it justified crazies.

some supporters of the unrestrained free market have found that dogma: the claim that science is nothing more than politics.

I really don't want to offend anybody, but I find all forms of religious fundamentalism frightening.

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

Jesus and his words have never belonged to the categories of dogma or law, and to read them as if they did is simply to miss them.

rigid evangelical position.

In Darwinian terms, a religion that ignores scientific facts and refuses to change its beliefs is like a fish stranded in a slowly drying pond and refusing to flip to deeper water because it doesn't want to believe its world has changed.

The religion of the future, Einstein had predicted, will be a cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Robert

found it deeply disturbing when a recent poll revealed that one half of my countrymen believe quite literally that Adam and Eve existed—that an all-powerful God created two fully formed human beings who single-handedly populated the entire planet, generating all the diverse races, with none of the inherent problems of inbreeding.

Spiritual inquiry has always been the realm of religion, which encourages us to have a blind faith in its teachings, even when they make little logical sense. - Edmond Kirsch

The religion of the future, Einstein had predicted, will be a cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.

El culto a Dios es como la extracción de combustibles fósiles -sostuvo uno de ellos-. Es una actividad de mentes cerradas y sin sentido, pero mucha gente inteligente la sigue practicando, porque ha invertido en ella demasiados recursos

For centuries, most of the devout had looked past vast amounts of scientific data and rational logic in defense of their faith.

Or are we?" Langdon intoned overhead. "We consider ourselves modern rational individuals, and yet our species' most widespread religion includes a whole host of magical claims—humans inexplicably rising from the dead, miraculous virgin births, vengeful gods that send plagues and floods, mystical promises

Tragically, on account of religious dogma, millions of people believe they already know the answers to these big questions. And because not every religion offers the same answers, entire cultures end up warring over whose answers are correct, and which version of God's story is the One True Story.