Quotes About Dogma

Church doctrine had it otherwise: Earth was at the center. The conflict between Galileo's telescope and Church dogma brought disaster to Galileo, but in the end the telescope prevailed, and the dramatic story of the confrontation taught Galileo's most important lesson.

Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.

Si una persona, al sostener una creencia que le fue enseñada en la niñez o de la que fue persuadida más tarde, rebaja y echa al un lado todas las dudas sobre ella que broten en su mente, evita a propósito la lectura de libros y la compañía que la cuestione o la discuta, y ve como impías aquellas preguntas que no puedan contestarse fácilmente sin perturbarla, entonces la vida de esa persona es un único y largo pecado contra la humanidad.

Alexander Berkman was a self-declared atheist attempting to lift the stultifying fog of the gods from the mind of humankind.

God save us from religion.

The bigotry of theologians [is] a malady which seems almost incurable.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

The left's authoritarian impulse goes hand in hand with its dogmatic ideology. Leftists are so certain their philosophy is the sole correct moral viewpoint that no other views are accorded the slightest respect. With this outlook, it doesn't take much to rationalize the use of force to foist their beliefs on the entire country.

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships him is a barbarian.

If you believe in Odin and Thor, people laugh themselves to death. While it's okay to believe in a man who turned water into wine, and walked on water

Anyone who attempts to construe a personal view of God which conflicts with church dogma must be burned without pity.

Most people do not let the Word of God get in the way of what they believe.

Faith is essentially intolerant ... essentially because necessarily bound up with faith is the illusion that one's cause is also God's cause.

God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.

Kill them all in the Name of the Lord.

Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext.

A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way.

Faith in God's revelation has nothing to do with an ideology which glorifies the status quo.

The religion of the future will be cosmic religion. It will transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology.

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.

Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.

Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.

I am thankful that all the people in the world who absolutely, positively, know what God wants, usually kill mostly each other.