#dogma

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

#god #journey #pay-tools #religion #roadway

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

#experience

While believing strongly, without evidence, is considered a mark of madness or stupidity in any other area of our lives, faith in God still holds immense prestige in our society. Religion is the one area of our discourse where it is considered noble to pretend to be certain about things no human being could possibly be certain about. It is telling that this aura of nobility extends only to those faiths that still have many subscribers. Anyone caught worshipping Poseidon, even at sea, will be thought insane. ↗

— Sam Harris

#belief #dogma #faith #religion #faith

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse." (History Will Teach Us Nothing) ↗

— Sting

#dogma #faith #fundamentalism #radicalism #reason

Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll turn it into something absurd. One who is a genuine adherent, if you like, of some political outlook, never takes its sophistries seriously, but only its practical aims, which are concealed beneath these sophistries. Political rhetoric and sophistries do not exist, after all, in order that they be believed; rather, they have to serve as a common and agreed upon alibi. Foolish people who take them in earnest sooner or later discover inconsistencies in them, begin to protest, and finish finally and infamously as heretics and apostates. No, too much faith never brings anything good... ↗

— Milan Kundera

#dogma #faith #history #machiavellian #moderation

Living in the present moment means living according to truth and principle (but not according to hard rigid dogma) flexibly applied in the particular way required by the immediate situation in which you are. Such a way of living leaves you free, not ruled tyrannically by imposed regulations which may not at all suit the particular case. ↗

— Paul Brunton

#inspirational #present-moment #principle #inspirational

For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#stupidity #motivational

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#extremism #fanaticism #god #inhumanity #justification

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

— Umberto Eco

#evil #fanaticism #fundamentalism #religion #religion

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#religion #religion