Redemption, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religions, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.
Ambrose BierceTags: humor murder eternity sin understanding mystery redemption deity deliverance doctrine holy-religions penalty sinners
The goal of religious thinking is exactly the same as that of technological research -- namely, practical action. Whenever man is truly concerned with obtaining concrete results, whenever he is hard pressed by reality, he abandons abstract speculation and reverts to a mode of response that becomes increasingly cautious and conservative as the forces he hopes to subdue, or at least to outrun, draw ever nearer.
René GirardTags: religion technology doctrine pragmatism
Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?
Charlotte BrontëTags: morality ethics soul religion temptation law principles body steadfastness doctrine
Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse."
(History Will Teach Us Nothing)
Tags: reason faith dogma fundamentalism doctrine radicalism
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
Edward R. MurrowTags: war bush doctrine rights civil
Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. Any man who is afraid to have his doctrine investigated is not only a coward but a hypocrite.
Robert G. IngersollTags: investigation honest doctrine coward hypocrite
He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
Jonathan EdwardsTags: religion theology doctrine affections
In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.
Rupertus MeldeniusTags: truth belief dogma doctrine catholicity church-unity
This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.
Robert G. IngersollTags: liberty morality freedom doctrine rights equal-rights
The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called 'faith.
Robert G. IngersollTags: reason insanity eternity absurd hell ignorance doctrine bliss infamous
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