Quotes About Dogma

Indifferentism about doctrine makes no heroes of the faith.

Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.

I'm afraid I don't believe there is such a thing as blasphemy, just outrage from those insecure in their own faith.

All novelty in faith is a sure mark of heresy.

The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.

Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. It's nothing to brag about.

To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.

Faith is intellectual laziness.

The lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence.

I find every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly: and where it fails them, they cry out, It is a matter of faith, and above reason.

If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have faith in their own religion.

No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.

The definitions of the Church are the rules of true faith.

Beyond doctrine or dogma, the most important component of religiosity is being kind to other people.

La masonería no era un sistema metafísico. No era un dogma. No era la revelación mística definitiva de una verdad única e inmutable. Era una forma de vida mediante la cual el individuo adquiría los instrumentos simbólicos indispensables para alcanzar de manera permanente una mayor perfección en la localización e identificación de la inteligencia suprema, presente tras la fachada del cosmos.

The tradition that refuses to entertain doubt, or remains impervious to new thoughts and ideas, becomes a prison rather than a sustaining life force.

but you can't ever be sure about a white man, and if you've got one that believes in virgin births, risin' from the dead, and God punishin' two nekkid people for wantn an education, you need to watch his ass ever' minute of the day.

Luther and Calvin were as dogmatic and intolerant as the Church had been. For those who had to decide whether to become Protestant or to remain Catholic, it was a terrible time. For once the original religion fragments, which religion then leads to salvation?

Wicked isn't crazy, it's just got religion

Write him down, if he must write him down as something, as a disbeliever; he disbelieved in the Pope, in the Kremlin, in the Vietcong, in the American eagle, in astrology, Arthur Schlesinger, Eldridge Cleaver, Senator Eastland, and Eastman Kodak. Nor did he believe overmuch in his disbelief. He

Humans are capable of having transcendent, transformative experiences in the absence of any given dogma. We are capable of sustaining elaborate systems of false belief and transmitting them to our children. We are capable of feeling so certain about our false beliefs that we are willing to kill or die for them. One

From bigots who hawk their goddoor-to-door, preserve us.

There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.