Quotes about Dogma

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly-marked feature of all law-religions, or religions established by law.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

Jesus and his words have never belonged to the categories of dogma or law, and to read them as if they did is simply to miss them.

We also give up on the quest for truth when we marshal all forces—in exegesis and history as well as in philosophical, moral, and practical theology—to "discover" and corroborate predetermined dogmatic stances.

One of the problems with the identification of Christianity with love is how such a view turns out to be both anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic. The Jews and Catholics become identified with the law or dogma, in contrast to Protestant Christians, who are about love.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom.

Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is.

Freedom of belief is pernicious," Bellarmine wrote on another occasion. "It is nothing but the freedom to be wrong.

he was able to explain to the clergy that 'Women are: "Satan's bait, poison for men's souls".

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.