Showing posts with label Dogma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dogma. Show all posts

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Quote of the Day (G.K. Chesterton, on Truth, Doubt and Dogma)


“Truths turn into dogmas the instant that they are disputed. Thus every man who utters a doubt defines a religion. And the scepticism of our time does not really destroy the beliefs, rather it creates them; gives them their limits and their plain and defiant shape…. We who are Christians never knew the great philosophic common sense which inheres in that mystery until the anti-Christian writers pointed it out to us. The great march of mental destruction will go on. Everything will be denied. Everything will become a creed.”—G.K. Chesterton, Heretics (1905)