Quotes About Dogma

a perverse and unruly superstition

Dogma is something you believe intellectually or on faith. Wisdom is something you know through Direct Experience!

how impossible it is to organize a belief. A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut things become.

Christianity   The human's most popular religion, partly because it gave its followers stories about people who had babies without sex, and who died without dying. It also made sure, via the bible, that there were enough possible interpretations to satisfy every human belief and prejudice.

Biblical literalism is for the simple.

For people who undergo religious conversions, individuality is replaced by ideology, and very little room is left for personal growth or expression.

What people do in the name of religion is not necessarily religious. It often has baser reasons behind it.

I do not purpose to discuss faith in its dogmatic sense today.

The history of ideas matters because ideas make actors out of human beings, and they make actors out of us precisely insofar as they occupy this open, uncontrollable, and inherently unlimited universe of explanations, not the stultifying dogma of a supposed conceptual scheme, not the inert, always epiphenomenal utterances we call doctrines or first principles.

Our athiests are pious people.

Everything sacred is a tie, a fetter.

May God protect us from all the religions!

Today's religions are nothing but the long-lived mythologies!

My very precious and relentlessly literal child, it's religion. It doesn't have to make sense.

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.

All religions are beautiful in the story, as you say. It's when they're put into practice that they grow ugly.

I'm not interested in offering dueling anecdotes, nor am I interested in dietary dogma, beliefs, or opinions. What I am interested in is the science. When it comes to making life-and-death decisions that concern something as important as your own health and that of your family, as far as I'm concerned, there's only one question: What does the best available balance of evidence say right now? That's what I've tried to encapsulate in this book.

Your Christ, the Church's Christ, is a god made in the image of effete men who've never had a good fuck in their lives, or if they have, who've thrashed themselves with whips to relieve their guilt. They hate their own cocks so much they'd light votive candles to make them fall off, if it would do the trick.

It's almost as if religion needs innocence, lack of education, and ignorance in order to thrive!

Men i Herrens sted plasserte han seg selv. Og det var den verste formen for læstadianisme, den kaldeste, den mest nådeløse. Læstadianismen uten Gud.

All religions, with their gods, their demi-gods, and their prophets, their messiahs and their saints, were created by the prejudiced fancy of men who had not attained the full development and full possession of their faculties.

Ideological and political intolerance, even with the best and most sincere intentions, produces results that are the direct opposite of those intended.

Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.