Quotes About Dogma

Public schoolboys are brought up to assume they should lead society, and Trotskyists know they are right about absolutely everything.

You can't have a church town without belief and you can't have belief without intolerance.

you can't have belief without intolerance.

The average Pakistani student is brought up on a mix of dogma and mythology that does not encourage respect for facts or empiricism.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Ideological muddle-headedness, political

Hold on, I won't have to read anything, will I? I'm not allowed to look at words, reading's sinful.

I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

some current controversies are caused, or at least stoked, by a reluctance to abandon received ideas that may well have outlived their usefulness.

Monotheism has also been recognized as inherently intolerant.

The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers. The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this.

El principal problema es que la mayoría de los comentaristas están acostumbrados a considerar a las escuelas espirituales como "sistemas", más o menos similares, y que dependen del dogma y el ritual: en especial de la repetición y la aplicación de presiones continuas y uniformes sobre sus seguidores. El camino sufi, excepto en formas degeneradas que no deben clasificarse como súficas, difiere totalmente de eso.

Unbelief itself is a religion with its own form of belief.

La incredulidad misma es una religión con su propia forma de creencia.

I still believe in God; the teachings of Jesus even, but the rest of Christianity... its Bible, its churches, its dogma-- only sets up boundaries between people and cultures. It denies the beauty of being HUMAN, and it ignores all these GAPS that need to be filled in by the individual.

Fanaticism is at its very strongest when it has political or, better still, religious motivation.

We seem to be the victims of religious dogma, both from the Christian Right here and, of course, in the East with the rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

It is impossible to advance new theories... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma.

The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force the Race, the Party, History, the proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.

People who ask questions and think about their faith are the last ones to embrace dogma -- and the last to abandon their path once they've set out on it. I felt fairly sure that the Almighty, whatever name tag He had on at the moment, could handle a few questions from people sincerely looking for answers. Hell, He might even like it.

People who ask questions and think about their faith are the last ones to embrace dogma—and the last to abandon their path once they've set out on it. I felt fairly sure that the Almighty, whatever name tag He had on at the moment, could handle a few questions from people sincerely looking for answers.

People who ask questions and think about their faith are the last ones to embrace dogma—and the last to abandon their path once they've set out on it.

Religion was supposed to be a blanket drawn up to your chin to keep you warm, a promise that when it came to the end, you wouldn't die alone - but it could just as easily leave you shivering out in the cold, if WHAT you believed became more important than the fact THAT you believed.