Quotes About Religious Dogma

#1. Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Deepak Chopra

#2. History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma

Aldous Huxley

#3. I'm not religious in the sense that I do not subscribe to any particular set of religious dogma. I don't go to church. I don't read the Bible. But I believe that the word "Spirit" with a capital S points to an ultimate reality which I give my heart to.

Frederick Buechner

#4. Religious dogma creates a perfect fertilizer for the weeds of hypocrisy.

Steve Maraboli

#5. The power of religious dogma, when inculcated early, is such as to stifle conscience, compassion, and finally every feeling of humanity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#6. The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.

Rosie O'Donnell

#7. The truth, however, is that the conflict between religion and science is unavoidable. The success of science often comes at the expense of religious dogma; the maintenance of religious dogma always comes at the expense of science.

Sam Harris

#8. I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.

E. O. Wilson

#9. Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#10. Old religious dogma attempts to convince you that you are on a journey to God, then makes you pay tolls along that roadway.

Steve Maraboli

#11. If our world is regulated by reductionist, narrow, sophomoric versions of Darwin; or reductionist, narrow, sophomoric versions of religious dogma; you end up being childishly anti-scientific, and childishly anti-religious, and you miss the very complex interaction [they share]

Cornel West

#12. In order for one to discover Divine Truth, one must be willing and able to go beyond the religious dogma that divides, rather than unites, humanity.

Jason E. Marshall

#13. Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual, commits an outrage against man's biological nature.

Aldous Huxley

#14. Considering how effortlessly religious dogma has become intertwined with political ideology, how can we overcome the clash-of-monotheisms mentality that has so deeply entrenched itself in the modern world? Clearly, education and tolerance are essential.

Reza Aslan

#15. Religion was created for the goodness of the humanity, but
religious dogma converts a good person to an evil person.

Debasish Mridha

#16. I feel like we need to be aware of the ways we use and misuse religious dogma: whether it takes us deeper into love and inclusion or it separates us.

Sue Monk Kidd

#17. Most religious persons would say that "truth is God", but they can't explain clearly who is God and hold a perspective of truth that is actually a religious dogma.

Daniel Marques

#18. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

Sam Harris

#19. Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.

Jack Kevorkian

#20. I have always found the hardest mind to change is one that is religious.

Shannon L. Alder

#21. I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of organized religion.

Justin Broadrick

#22. Dogma is no substitute for an inner religious experience.

Elizabeth Ann Robinson

#23. Another religious fanatic to whom facts and reality took second place to dogma.

Peter F. Hamilton

#24. Christendom and heathendom now stand face to face ... At bottom is a violent and irreconcilable quarrel about the nature of God and the nature of an and the ultimate nature of the universe; it is a war of dogma.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#25. Here is the woman who had seriously considered taking LSD under the supervision of a medical doctor so she could have "a mind-altering experience," who had read herself straight out of Mormonism and into Eastern religious thought
but refused to replace one dogma with another.

Terry Tempest Williams

#26. Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses ...

Edward Abbey

#27. There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

Bart D. Ehrman

#28. Poetry resists academic pretension, just as the mystery of religious faith evaporates on contact with dogma.

Patrick White

#29. In my 20s, as I began to travel in Europe, I found comfort in religious paintings. Even though my own belief in Catholic dogma had been shaken and weakened, I found that the beauty and the richness of the art still held me.

Colm Toibin

#30. People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.

Umberto Eco

#31. Apparently Pope John Paul II and his boys - is that what you call them? - loved one of my songs and thought I was putting spiritual messages in my music. I'm not religious as such. Dogma and I don't get along.

Gloria Estefan

#32. A lot of America's success is because we're an open society and haven't brought dogma or religious influence into the American political process.

Jeff Hawkins

#33. Dogma", spelled backwards, is "Am God". When a person allows someone else's dogma to become their God, they have things backwards.

Donald L. Hicks

#34. On the other side, Church spokesmen could scarcely become enthusiastic about Planck's deism, which omitted all reference to established religions and had no more doctrinal content than Einstein's Judaism.

J.L. Heilbron

#35. There must be absolute religious liberty, for tyranny and intolerance are as abhorrent in matters intellectual and spiritual as in matters political and material; and more and more we must all realize that conduct is of infinitely greater importance than dogma.

Theodore Roosevelt

#36. The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small matter of dogma and none of us seemed more religious than anyone else, no one ever questioned the rituals or the basic tenets of belief.

Colm Toibin

#37. For Christian writers, religious faith is not a rebellion against reason, but a revolt against the imprisonment of humanity within the cold walls of a rationalist dogmatism.

Alister E. McGrath

#38. Blind faith in belief-system, ideologies, doctrine or dogma can never set us free. Only the knowledge of truth can liberate us from the slavery of doctrine, dogmas, blind faiths and religious sects.

Banani Ray

#39. I believe in any religion that puts treating people with respect and dignity above ritual and dogma.

Charles F. Glassman

#40. The essence of a religious approach to the world, it seems to me, is to be found, not in the imposition of theological dogma, but in the recognition of what is actually there.

John Barton