Quotes About Dogma

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself

Cultural predilections are not to be confused with theological absolutes. The former are preferences - the latter are immutable.

Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.

Who wants to be stuck in being religious and being spiritual either? That's not freedom. You've just exchanged handcuffs for leg irons - which doesn't mean that you should avoid enlightenment.

There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any asssertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors.

I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his.

In every religion, you find the same extremists.

facts never disconfirm a good ideology

Sacred cows make the best hamburgers.

A man is accepted into church for what he believes--and turned out for what he knows.

I think religion is a funny thing because, when you see somebody who can really break it down, sometimes it feels foolish what you believe.

The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

They never grow less stupid, men who believe in belief.

Catholicism - all the perversions of Christianity - is not a faith of love. It is a faith of fear. Obey, be good, toe the line, and heaven is yours, the first prize in the lottery of eternity. Disobey, react, cut the lifeline, and never-ceasing damnation is the booby prize. The dogma is, love the only god and you shall be safe. Fail in that love and he will not rescue you, not until you crawl and apologize and fawn before the altar. What kind of a religion demands such indignity?

The guiding light of investment contrarianism is not that the majority view-the conventional, or received, wisdom-is always wrong. Rather, it's that majority opinion tends to solidify into a dogma while its basic premises begin to lose their original validity and so become progressively more mispriced in the marketplace.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.

here where we are concerned not with the dogma of Scripture and the Corycian cavern only, but in very truth with the awful secrets of the Divine Majesty (namely, why he works in the way we have said), here you smash bolts and bars and rush in all but blaspheming, as indignant as possible with God because you are not allowed to see the meaning and purpose of such a judgment of his.

Nothing is more familiar or characteristic among Christians than assertion. Take away assertions, and you take away Christianity.