Quotes About Dogma

I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.

Pope Innocent VIII made such hysterical nonsense official Catholic dogma in his 1484 Bull, Summis desiderantes affectibus: Men and women straying from the Catholic faith have abandoned themselves to devils, incubi and succubi [male and female demonic sexual partners], and by their incantations, spells, conjurations. . .have slain infants yet in the mother's womb, as also the offspring of cattle, have blasted the produce of the earth. . . .24

None of this stuff is really about morality or religion or dogma or big fancy questions of life after death. The capital-T Truth is about life before death.

I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

For young Brits like Xan and Paddy, brute force was everything they were trying to escape. Biê was boarding school beatings, Victorian prudishness, the blind obedience to the dogma of "Theirs not to make reply, / Theirs not to reason why, / Theirs but to do and die" that sent their fathers and brothers marching into machine-gun fire during the Great War. Weirdly, religion had a lot to

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

Aquella tarde, Rita, que no era madre ni nunca lo sería, obligó a otra mujer a serlo, forzando el dogma aprendido hasta llegar al cuerpo de otro.

Sin embargo, es el cientificismo y no la ciencia propiamente dicha el que desestima cualquier autoridad distinta a la suya.

ideology itself the perpetual enemy of realism.

a system of belief which confused the desirable and the inevitable was still a dogma.

Man tends to treat all his opinions as principles.

The central facts of the incarnation, satisfaction, and resurrection are the fulfillment of the three great thoughts of the Old Covenant, the content of the New Testament, the Kerygma of the Apostles, the foundation of the Christian Church, the marrow of its history of dogma and the centre of the history of the world.

In case a dogma is not based on divine authority, it is wrong to call it by that name, and it should not have a place in the faith of the church.

Such a scientific defense of the dogma, i.e., of the entire content of revelation and of Christianity as a whole, is possible for the reason that nature and grace, creation and redemption, coming as they do from one and the same God, are not and cannot be in conflict.

But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist.

No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.

Economics is closer to religion than science.

I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their way. It's like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for.

When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland's people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice.

I am highly variable in my devotion. From a doctrinal point of view or a dogmatic point of view or a strictly Catholic adherent point of view, I'm first to say that I talk a good game, but I don't know how good I am about it in practice.