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“Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.”

Sin Atheism Crime Grew Becoming Originals Victim Misery Positive Atheism Doctrine Delusion Helpless Witchcraft Celibacy Original Sin Asceticism

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“The establishment of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based on things certain Christians do not like. What if the next bunch of Washington wives demands a large yellow J on all material written or performed by Jews, in order to save helpless children from exposure to concealed Zionist doctrine?”

Source: Real Frank Zappa Book

“I am anxious to see the doctrine of one god commenced in our state. But the population of my neighborhood is too slender, and is too much divided into other sects to maintain any one preacher well. I must therefore be contented to be an Unitarian by myself, although I know there are many around me who would become so, if once they could hear the questions fairly stated.”

Ifs Knows Wells States Too Much Atheism Population Positive Atheism Doctrine Neighborhood Divided Anxious Preacher Sects Slender Unitarian

Book:The writings of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The writings of Thomas Jefferson

“The Christian priesthood, finding the doctrines of Christ leveled to every understanding, and too plain to need explanation, saw, in the mysticism of Plato, materials with which they might build up an artificial system which might, from it's indistinctness, admit everlasting controversy, give employment for their order, and introduce it to profit, power and pre-eminence.”

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction.... In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism, which has been gradually compromised away into one of legality. It holds out the hope of heaven and the threat of hell, as the appointed and appropriate motives to a virtuous life - in this falling far below the best of the ancients, and doing what lies in it to give to human morality an essentially selfish character.... It is essentially a doctrine of passive obedience; it inculcates submission to all authorities found established.”

Source: Utilitarianism, liberty, and representative government

“It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual emasculation of the Christian doctrine has been effected in spite of the most vigorous resistance, and solely as the result of the onslaughts of freethinkers.”

Years Believe Has Beens Christian Results Atheism Years Ago Credit Positive Atheism Resistance Doctrine Spite Orthodox Absurdity Vigorous Freethinker Christian Doctrine Emasculation

Book:Why I Am Not a Christian

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian

“Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects; it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul.”

Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana

“Vehemence is the expression of a blind effort to support and uphold something that can never stand on its own. Whether it is our own meaningless self we are upholding, or some doctrine devoid of evidence, we can do it only in a frenzy of faith.”

Self Can Do Effort Support Atheism Expression Evidence Blind Positive Atheism Doctrine Meaningless Frenzy Vehemence

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Will any one, save the most bigoted, contend, that it is not certain gain to humanity to spread unbelief in the terrible doctrine that eternal torment is the probable fate of the great majority of the human family?”

Humans Certain Humanity Fate Atheism Terrible Eternal Gains Majority Spread Positive Atheism Doctrine Torment Unbelief Human Family

Book:Theological Essays

Source: Theological Essays

“In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only natural science but intellectual work of all kinds.”

Kind Natural Intellectual University Scary Doctrine All Kinds Assumption Naturalism Natural Science

Author:Philip Johnson

“If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without ... let men believe in the lies of religion since they cannot do without them, and let then a handful of sages, who know the truth and can live with it, keep it among themselves. Men are then divided into the wise and the foolish, the philosophers and the common men, and atheism becomes a guarded, esoteric doctrine - for if the illusions of religion were to be discredited, there is no telling with what madness men would be seized, with what uncontrollable anguish.”

“So dogma, doctrine, unexamined assumptions, that's what it is to be sharing that, the hippies shadow, no way of grounding it to reality. It's where we're just cut off from reality unless we can argue, we can substantiate, we can justify, we can convince each other.”

Way Reality Cutting Shadow Arguing Doctrine Assumption Convince Justify Dogma Hippie Grounding

Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“While theoretically a person may block God out, logically there will be a breakdown because ultimately all enunciation implies a moral doctrine of some kind. And if that moral doctrine is not absolute then the definer himself becomes undefined. That's what we are living with - an undefined definer giving us definitions for our course, and we are being trapped in the quicksand of the absence of objective truth.”

Ifs Giving Kind May Persons Courses Moral Absolutes Definitions Absence Doctrine Objectives Block Trapped Breakdown Quicksand Objective Truth Undefined

Author:Ravi Zacharias

“Mormon leaders said in a statement they will reexamine their ties to the Boy Scouts. "The church," they said, "has always welcomed all boys to its Scouting units regardless of sexual orientation. However, the admission of openly gay leaders is inconsistent with the doctrines of the church and what have traditionally been the values of the Boy Scouts of America."”

Said America Values Church Leader Boys Gay Statements Doctrine Ties Units They Said Orientation Inconsistent Admission Scouting Boy Scout Boy Scouts Of America

Author:Gwen Ifill

“The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic lawof chromatics. Don't look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine.”

Looks Would Be Behinds Steps Sky Theory Doctrine Steps Forward Factual

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you.”

Freedom Willing Doctrine Zarathustra

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“... your spiritual teachers caution you against enquiry--tell you not to read certain books; not to listen to certain people; to beware of profane learning; to submit your reason, and to receive their doctrines for truths. Such advice renders them suspicious counsellors.”

Source: Course of popular lectures; with 3 addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789

“I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le.”

Matter Used Wonder Youth Equal Misery British Nine Doctrine Used To Be Revolt Morbid Submerged Nothing Matters

Author:Winston Churchill

“Schools need not preach political doctrine to defend democracy. If they shape men capable of critical thought and trained in social attitudes, that is all that is necessary.”

Ifs Men Needs School Political Social Education Attitude Democracy Shapes Capable Critical Doctrine

Author:Albert Einstein

“The terrible newly imported American doctrine that everyone ought to do something.”

Work Ought Terrible Doctrine

Book:Left Hand, Right Hand!: An Autobiography

Source: Left Hand, Right Hand!: An Autobiography

“It is to the press mankind are indebted for having dispelled the clouds which so long encompassed religion, for disclosing her genuine lustre, and disseminating her salutary doctrines.”

Long Religion Mankind Presses Clouds Genuine Doctrine Indebted

Book:1829-1836

Source: 1829-1836

“[The Republican Party] consists of those who, believing in the doctrine that mankind are capable of governing themselves and hating hereditary power as an insult to the reason and an outrage to the rights of men, are naturally offended at every public measure that does not appeal to the understanding and to the general interest of the community.”

Men Believe Doe Reason Government Hate Understanding Interest Community Party Rights Mankind Republican Capable Doctrine Appeals Insult Republican Party Offended Governing Outrage Hereditary

Book:1829-1836

Source: 1829-1836

“With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept the shibboleth of an unbridgeable gap between those who hire and those who are employed. We miserably fail to challenge the lie that what is good for management is necessarily bad for labor; that for one side to profit, the other must be depressed. Such distorted doctrine is false and foreign to the American scene where common ideals and purpose permit us a common approach toward the common good.”

“It is a most curious experience for a man of seventy-two to be confronted with the greenhorn enthusiasms of his youth. Young people think they are so smart. Alas the doctrines they spout with such fervor turn out to be mostly parroted from their elders.”

People Thinking Men Two Young Turns Youth Smart Doctrine Enthusiasm Curious Arrogance Autobiography Seventies Alas Elders Fervor

Book:One man's initiation: 1917: a novel

Source: One man's initiation: 1917: a novel

“The doctrine of thrift for the poor is dumb and cruel, like advising them to try and lift themselves by their bootstraps.”

Trying Poor Doctrine Dumb Lifts Thrift Bootstraps

Author:Norman Thomas

“This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour.”

Hours Church Doctrine Preserves Justification Begets Cornerstones One Hour

Book:What Luther says: an anthology

Source: What Luther says: an anthology

“We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind things true, things elevated, things just, things pure, things amiable, things of good report; having these in mind, studying and loving these, is what saves states.”

Mind States Truth Study Pure Doctrine Reports Amiable Hold Fast True Things

Book:Thoughts on Education: Chosen from the Writings of Matthew Arnold

Source: Thoughts on Education: Chosen from the Writings of Matthew Arnold

“Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.”

Philosophy Body Activity Philosophical Aim Doctrine Logical Clarification

Book:Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“And I profess still, that whatsoever the church of England (the church, I say, not every doctor) shall forbid me to say in matterof faith, I shall abstain from saying it, excepting this point, that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died for my sins. As for other doctrines, I think it unlawful, if the church define them, for any member of the church to contradict them.”

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Book:The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury

Source: The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury

“But his Lordship [tells]us that God is wholly here, and wholly there, and wholly every where; because he has no parts. I cannot comprehend nor conceive this. For methinks it implies also that the whole world is also in the whole God, and in every part of God. Norcan I find anything of this in the Scripture. If I could find it there, I could believe it; and if I could find it in the public doctrine of the Church, I could easily abstain from contradicting it.”

Ifs World Believe Whole God Church Bible Scripture Whole World Doctrine If I Could Contradicting Lordship

Author:Thomas Hobbes

“By an individual being, whatever one's metaphysical doctrine, one means an unique being, that is, a being which is alone of its own type, or is such that no other of its class exists.”

Mean Individual Class Type Unique Doctrine Metaphysical

Book:The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown

Source: The Religious Philosophy of Josiah Royce; Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Stuart Gerry Brown

“I prize the purity of his character as highly as I do that of hers. As a moral being, whatever it is morally wrong for her to do,it is morally wrong for him to do. The fallacious doctrine of male and female virtues has well nigh ruined all that is morally great and lovely in his character: he has been quite as deep a sufferer by it as woman, though mostly in different respects and by other processes.”

Wells Has Beens Different Character Process Moral Virtue Morality Female Males Lovely Doctrine Purity Prize Ruined Sufferers

Author:Angelina Grimke

“When human beings are regarded as moral beings, sex, instead of being enthroned upon the summit, administering upon rights and responsibilities, sinks into insignificance and nothingness. My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do. Our duties originate, not from difference of sex, but from the diversity of our relations in life, the various gifts and talents committed to our care, and the different eras in which we live.”

“When a minister or a clergyman takes seriously unfashionable Christian doctrines which condemn sex outside marriage, homosexuality, abortion, and feminism, and injects his views into the political debate, he is immediately denounced as a 'reactionary.'”

Christian Political Sex Religious Views Feminism Debate Doctrine Ministers Abortion Homosexuality Reactionaries Clergymen Political Debates Christian Doctrine

Book:Faith & Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty

Source: Faith & Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty

“"Who are we to say what is right and what is wrong?" is the common refrain under the doctrine of pure pluralism. Clearly, society cannot long survive if this principle is pushed to its logical conclusion and everyone is free to write his own laws.”

Ifs Writing Long Christian Law Religious Common Principles Pure Doctrine Conclusion Logical Refrain Pluralism

Book:Faith & Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty

Source: Faith & Freedom: The Christian Roots of American Liberty

“The modern concept of separation is an argument for a total separation of religion from the state. The consequence of the acceptance of the doctrine leads to the removal of religion as an influence in civil government.”

States Government Christian Religious Influence Modern Acceptance Concepts Consequence Argument Separation Doctrine Removal

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“... demanding a separation between church and state isn't enough; the churches' basic doctrines must be changed, with homophobia written out forever.”

States Enough Christian Church Religious Forever Written Changed Separation Doctrine Church And State Homophobia Separation Between Church And State

Author:Michelangelo Signorile

“Unlike Descartes, we own and use our beliefs of the moment, even in the midst of philosophizing, until by what is vaguely called scientific method we change them here and there for the better. Within our own total evolving doctrine, we can judge truth as earnestly and absolutely as can be, subject to correction, but that goes without saying.”

Moments Use Truth Science Belief Subjects Judging Method Doctrine Evolve Midst Here And There Corrections Scientific Method

Book:Word and Object

Source: Word and Object

“The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.”

Philosophy Reality Three Names Views Century Mathematics Point Of View Doctrine Historian Realism Twentieth Century Medieval Surveys

Author:Willard Van Orman Quine

“Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects.”

May Middle Objects Theory Ordinary Endure Doctrine Chemistry Chapters Deliberate

Author:Willard Van Orman Quine

“Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is, as so often in philosophy, it is hard to improve intelligibility while retaining the excitement.”

Ifs Hard Philosophy Would Be Trouble Doctrine Excitement Good Sense Exotic Relativism Retaining

Book:Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation: Philosophical Essays

Source: Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation: Philosophical Essays

“I think that there is an infinite creative force that generates all consciousness and all matter and we are all connected and if you align yourself with this infinite creative force then you can be positive and you can be beautiful, I don't think its a person or god, I don't believe in any particular doctrine or dogma, only that humanity is connected.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Persons Matter Beautiful Humanity Force Consciousness Creative Particular Infinite Don't Believe Connected Doctrine Dogma Being Positive

Author:Russell Brand

“The new supplants the old. Yet men's minds are stuffed with outworn bunk. Educating the young in the latest findings of authorities and scholars in the social sciences is important. It is equally important to devise ways and means for aiding the middle-aged and old to reexamine hang-over unscientific doctrines and ideas in the light of recent discovery and research.”

“Christianity is not a set of beliefs or doctrines one believes in order to be a Christian, but rather Christianity is to have one's body shaped, one's habits determined, in such a way that the worship of God is unavoidable.”

Way Believe Body Christian Order Belief Christianity Habit Worship Determined Doctrine

Author:Stanley Hauerwas

“Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our fathers-settler-colonialism, the doctrine of discovery, the myth of manifest destiny, white supremacy, theft and systematic killing-to the contemporary condition of permanent war, invasion and occupation, mass incarceration, and the constant use and threat of state violence.”

“Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.”

World Together Chance Democracy Europe Affair Doctrine World Affairs Liberal Democracy

Author:Victor Ponta

“The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration of humility, there is no question of continuance. No inspired man ever asks this question, or condescends to these evidences. For the soul is true to itself, and the man in whom it is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite, to a future which would be finite.”

Source: Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)

“Liberal Doctrine: it is not children who misbehave, but parents.”

Children Parent Doctrine Parent Child

Author:Mason Cooley

“The whole is always more, is more capable of a much greater variety of wave states, than the combination of its parts. ... In this very radical sense, quantum physics supports the doctrine that the whole is more than the combination of its parts.”

States Whole Support Greater Capable Wave Physics Doctrine Radical Variety Combination Quantum Quantum Physics

Author:Hermann Weyl

“Truth is not over there, wherever over there is. Truth is neither housed in religious rituals nor secret doctrines, nor in a guru's touch or beatific smile, nor in exotic locations or ancient temples. Truth is quite literally the only thing that does exist. It is not hidden but in plain view, not lacking but abundantly present.”

Doe Religious Views Secret Truth Is Ancient Doctrine Temples Ritual Lacking Location Guru Exotic Religious Rituals

Author:Adyashanti

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