Critical thinking Quote by Anaïs Nin

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

— Anais Nin

“It is an interesting observation on today's religious climate that many people now get every bit as steamed up about insisting that 'all religions…

— N.T. Wright

“Religion is the nurture of backbiting tales vomited by authoritarians, eaten by subalterns.”

— Jahanshah Safari

“Even if dogma has a purpose, it can never function as a substitute for faith, only as a dry aspect of it.”

— Nathan Lopes Cardozo

“Religious dogma not only results in the form of gross, zealous behavior such as the killing of ethnic minorities as part of a cultural…

— Martin Dansky

“There was a time, when we were illiterate, insane and inhuman, and we needed religion to control the masses for the good or evil,…

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Religion is the process of internal growth, not a lifeless bag of foolish words.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“In order for one to discover Divine Truth, one must be willing and able to go beyond the religious dogma that divides, rather than…

— Jason E. Marshall

“Politics and organized religion can often be mere exercises in the manipulation of the psyche.”

— Dan Santos

“Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith.”

— Alan Aldridge

“Dogma is easy, belief is hard.”

— Lloyd Sachs

“Religion often gets in the way of God.”

— Bono