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title: "8 Dogmatic Religion Quotes by 7 authors"
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> [Dogmatic religion has been used to fantastic effect over thousands of years to fuel and exploit emotions like fear and guilt, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-icke/dogmatic-religion-has-been-used-to-fantastic-effect-over-thousands-of/)

[David Icke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-icke/)

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> [The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/the-religion-of-the-future-will-be-a-cosmic-religion-the-religion/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [“Dogmatic religion is not open to people having direct access to those higher realms.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eben-alexander/dogmatic-religion-is-not-open-to-people-having-direct-access-to-those/)

[Eben Alexander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eben-alexander/)

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> [If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dreiser/if-i-were-personally-to-define-religion-i-would-say-that-it-is-a/)

[Theodore Dreiser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-dreiser/)

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> [Judaism is not a dogmatic religion but one which loves debate, in which scholarship has played a big part. Scholars never agree…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-zeldin/judaism-is-not-a-dogmatic-religion-but-one-which-loves-debate-in/)

[Theodore Zeldin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-zeldin/)

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> [The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-stuart-mill/the-principle-itself-of-dogmatic-religion-dogmatic-morality-dogmatic-2/)

[John Stuart Mill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-stuart-mill/)

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> [I sometimes find the vegetarians are more conditioned and more dogmatic than anything else, more than the religion. It's terrible, you must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irina-tweedie/i-sometimes-find-the-vegetarians-are-more-conditioned-and-more/)

[Irina Tweedie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irina-tweedie/)

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> [All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dreiser/all-forms-of-dogmatic-religion-should-go-the-world-did-without-them/)

[Theodore Dreiser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-dreiser/)

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