Quotes of: Dogmatic Keyword

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

The modern world is filled with men who hold dogmas so strongly that they do not even know that they are dogmas. It may be said even that the modern world, as a corporate body, holds certain dogmas so strongly that it does not know that they are dogm...

Heretics

Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.

The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

The political vision of the religious right is for the most part an individualistic politics of righteousness, not a communal politics of compassion.

The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith

Truthfully, wicked people reveal themselves in words first, to inhibit speech would inhibit us seeing the wicked before they act.

Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction

If ... you are looking for a large dose of truth with some all too human foibles and faults and long nights of coffee drenched brains and frequent trips to the bathroom then this book is for you.

Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction

Why would anyone want to live in a cage when we are free persons? This is the point to make, when we can rattle cages it means we are behind bars and are not free.

Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction

Our images of God matter. Just as how we conceptualize God affects what we think the Christian life is about, so do our images of God.

The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith

This is the strange thing about life, when people are confronted, they all say that the truth is what they want but when the truth disagrees with them, they balk at it as if it were an unwanted zombie apocalypse that only wants to destroy civilizatio...

Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction

Dogmatism makes for scientific anemia.

Gordon W. Allport

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

William Osler

How we think about God matters. It affects the credibility of religion in general and of Christianity in particular. Our concept of God can make God seem real or unreal, just as it can also make God seem remote or near.

The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith

When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are, in effect, imprisoned by it. On the other hand, tradition can be understood as a pointer to that which is beyond tradition: the sacr...

The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith

Freedom and wildness, that which we were born into, is a grand mystery and miracle that creates a openness reserved not for barring us in but for keeping us out of cages. It is our ability to find the truth that has been a survival tool for our speci...

Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction

They talk about human rights until the rights include things they personally do not like as alternatives. There needs to be Frank discussions. And Shirley can join too because the pun works. The ideas of human beings of all demeanor and venues are at...

Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction

If you can put this book down, it means you need more coffee and less sleep. After all, sleep is for the weak which is why I get 8 hours every night and 2 hours during the day and drink de-cafe.

Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction

This is the reason why atheists protest the “God” gene and religious will hate and protest religion as a virus. They were blindfolded at an early age, and their psychological issues were the blindfold. The facts are often used as weapons rather t...

Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction

Dogmatism is inversely proportional to evidence.

Dana Wallace

The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now for the sake of heaven later. It is about entering a relationship in the present that begins to change everything now. Spiritual...

The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith

The point is not that Jesus was a good guy who accepted everybody, and thus we should do the same (though that would be good). Rather, his teachings and behavior reflect an alternative social vision. Jesus was not talking about how to be good and how...

The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith