Atheism Quote by Margaret E. Knight Download Open image “Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear examination.” — Margaret E. Knight ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atheism Bears Dogma Education Ethical Ethics Examination Examining Ifs Inventor Positive atheism Teaching Tied Tied up Weak Weakening Weakness
“It is quaint that people talk about separating dogma from education. Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Good teaching cannot be reduced to technique; good teaching comes from the identity and integrity of the teacher. — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Teaching is been seen as kind of a moral calling and not as an intellectual job. — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
The damage of teaching: the constant contact with the undeveloped. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Dogma is actually the only thing that cannot be separated from education. It IS education. A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If teachers are not allowed to teach unless they do what they preach, no one will ever teach. — Rachid Moussaid Copy Share Image
Education should be about teaching, not indoctrinating students with a political agenda. — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
I want here to make three suggestions: first, that the doubts the ordinary man feels about religion are justified, and need not be stifled or concealed; second, that there is no ground for the view that Christianity is the only alternative to communism, or that there can be no sound character training that is not based on religion; and, third,… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share
It is difficult, none the less, for the ordinary man to cast off orthodox beliefs, for he is seldom allowed to hear the other… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
There is no ground whatever for the claim, so often made by religious apologists, that these ideals are specifically Christian and originated with Jesus. What were specifically Christian were some of the less enlightened teachings, which have done untold harm. Christians claim that organised Christianity has been a great force for good, but this view can be maintained on one… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share
Jesus, in fact, was typical of a certain kind of fanatical young idealist: at one moment holding forth, with tears in his eyes, about… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
One of the most persistent fallacies about the Christian Church is that it kept learning alive during the Dark and Middle Ages. What the… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
One of the best ways to improve men's behaviour is to enlighten their minds: and today, against the strong opposition of the Church and… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source of intellectual… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
There is no justification for the common claim that Christianity was responsible for the abolition of slavery. The Negro slave trade - a far… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural human sympathy,… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
My chief aim was to combat the view that there can be no true morality without supernatural sanctions. So I argued at length that… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
During the ages of faith the Church argued, not illogically, that any degree of cruelty towards sinners and heretics was justified, if there was… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to try to impose Christian beliefs on children and to make them the basis of moral training. The moral education… — Margaret E. Knight Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the rack, the thumb-screw, the stake, the persecutions of witchcraft, the whipping of naked women through the streets of Boston, banishment, trials of heresy, the halter about Garrison's neck, Lovejoy's death, the branding of Captain Walker, shouts… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart and therefore you can act on it, you have completely justified the 9/11 bombers. You have justified Charlie Manson. If it's true for you, why isn't it true for them? Why are you different? If you… — Penn Jillette Copy Share
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
If, with all the time at my disposal, with all the wealth of the resources of this vast universe, to do with as I… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image