“Even before Melanchthon sank into his grave, he was dismayed at seeing Lutheranism stiffen into dogmas and formulas, and heartbroken by a persecution from his fellow-Protestants more bitter than anything he had ever experienced from Catholics.” SeeingCatholicFellowsGravesBitterFormulasDogmaPersecutionHeartbrokenProtestantsDismayed Book:SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON Source: SEVEN GREAT STATESMEN IN THE WARFARE OF HUMANITY WITH UNREASON
“I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate in in gay activism and established feminism today.” TodayFormHateGirlChurchFeminismGayI HateCatholicActivismHatedDogmaTroopsCatholic ChurchGirl Scout Author:Camille Paglia
“Whether considered as a doctrine, or as an historical fact, or as a movemement, socialism, if it really remains socialism, cannotbe brought into harmony with the dogmas of the Catholic church.... Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.” IfsFactsChristianTermChurchReligiousExpressionHarmonyCatholicRemainsHistoricalSocialismDoctrineContradictionDogmaCatholic ChurchImplyingHistorical Facts Author:Pope Pius XI
“I was raised Catholic and didn't like the dogma and exclusivity of that teaching but I was moved by the moral teachings and by the power of the Jesus fellow.” JesusMoralTeachingCatholicFellowsMovedRaisedDogmaExclusivity Author:Tom Shadyac
“I can definitely make an argument for atheism. I was very educated in scripture and dogma and the church, particularly the Catholic Church. I could not possibly know that I disagreed with religion unless I knew what I was disagreeing with.” KnowsI CanChurchAtheismArgumentCatholicScriptureEducatedDogmaCatholic Church Author:Amber Heard
“The religious training inspired in me a desire for learning. In fact, I am immensely grateful for my Catholic education for instilling in me a desire for learning. However, the Catholic training also gave me a desire for questioning. The desire to question led me eventually to distance myself from the Catholic institution and its dogma.” DesireReligiousTrainingCatholicGratefulDistanceInspiredQuestioningDogma Author:Leonard Lawlor
“It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies.” IfsMatterChurchEnemySeeingFindingsCatholicFundamentalsIncludingAcceptedCreedsDogmaCatholic ChurchService To OthersReally LivingFinding God Author:Martin Sheen
“The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small matter of dogma and none of us seemed more religious than anyone else, no one ever questioned the rituals or the basic tenets of belief.” MatterBeliefParentChurchReligiousCatholicRitualDogmaCatholic ChurchParts Of LifeRoman CatholicRoman Catholic ChurchReligious Dogma Author:Colm Toibin
“It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.” IfsReasonNaturalChurchPowerfulExistencePowerImpossibleDutyRegardCatholicCatholicismDogmaExistence Of GodRoman Catholic Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film, or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery and symbol better than doctrine and dogma. Images touch hearts and awaken imaginations. One theologian suggested that Springsteen's 'Tunnel of Love' album, in which he symbolically sings of sin, death, despair and redemption, is more important for Catholics than the Pope's last visit when he spoke of morality only in doctrinal propositions.” PeopleIfsLoveHeartMayImportantBookAgeLastsFilmImaginationSinNovelGraceMoralityDespairCatholicAlbumsDoctrineContemporaryRedemptionSymbolsSpokesConcertsDogmaPopePropositionsTheologianImageryTunnelsWoodyWhirlwindSpringsteenFilm And MusicWoody Allen Film Author:Brennan Manning
“What church I go to on Sunday, what dogma of the Catholic Church I believe in, is my business; and whatever faith any other American has is his business.” BelieveReligionI BelieveChurchCatholicI Believe InSundayDogmaCatholic Church Author:John F. Kennedy
“For how shall we fill people with blind faith in the correctness of a doctrine, if we ourselves spread uncertainty and doubt by constant changes in its outward structure? ...Here, too, we can learn by the example of the Catholic Church. Though its doctrinal edifice, and in part quite superfluously, comes into collision with exact science and research, it is none the less unwilling to sacrifice so much as one little syllable of its dogmas... it is only such dogmas which lend to the whole body the character of a faith.” PeopleIfsLittlesWholeCharacterBodyChurchReligiousDoubtSacrificeExampleResearchCatholicBlindStructureConstantSpreadDoctrineUncertaintyCatholicismDogmaCatholic ChurchUnwillingCorrectnessSyllablesBlind FaithCollisionEdificeMein KampfExact SciencesUncertainty And Doubt Author:Adolf Hitler
“The sacred rites, although not instituted specifically for proving the truth of the dogmas of the Catholic Faith incontrovertibly, are effectively the living voice of Catholic Truth, the oft-sounded expression of it. For that very reason the true Church of Christ, even as she shows great zeal to guard inviolate those forms of divine worship - since they are hallowed and are not to be changed - sometimes grants or permits something novel in the performance of them in certain instances. This she does especially when they are in conformity with their venerable antiquity.” DoeSometimesReasonShowsFormCertainVoiceChristChurchNovelChangedDivineExpressionProveWorshipPerformancesCatholicSacredInstanceGrantsConformityCatholicismPermitDogmaZealAntiquityRiteCatholic FaithChurch Of Christ Author:Pope Leo XIII
“So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud of those parts of it that are most commonly called superstition. I am proud of being fettered by antiquated dogmas and enslaved by dead creeds (as my journalistic friends repeat with so much pertinacity), for I know very well that it is the heretical creeds that are dead, and that it is only the reasonable dogma that lives long enough to be called antiquated.” KnowsMenWellsMayLongEnoughHumilityProudCatholicRepeatsReasonableRootedSuperstitionsCreedsDogmaBe ProudLong LifeJournalistic Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity, would bring back to the world (if such a Church could overcome) the reign of legalized cunning and force, and the oppression of the weak, and of all those who toil and suffer. [...] Indeed, the true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators: they are traditionalists.” PeopleIfsWorldMindHumansCountrySufferingPassionForceChurchPowerfulMovementDisciplineDignityWeakOvercomingCatholicOppressionRevolutionaryOrganizedEstablishmentDogmaReignToilCunningHierarchyTrue FriendHuman DignityInnovatorsCurbPretextApostasy Author:Pope Pius X
“Roman Catholics utter their Papal edicts, Protestants quote their Bible, Fundamentalists declare their orthodox theological dogmas, and we are all expected to renounce private reflection and peacefully acquiesce to these pronouncements. And the result is that the dignity of the person is violated by such oppressive, intelligence-smothering forms of communication.” PersonsFormResultsCommunicationReflectionDignityCatholicExpectedTheologyOrthodoxDogmaTheologicalProtestantsRenounceRoman Catholic Author:Robert H. Schuller