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Religion Without God

Fulton J. Sheen

To say we want no dogmas in religion is to assert a dogma.

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The speaker argues that rejecting all doctrine in religion is itself a doctrine. Declaring that faith should have no fixed beliefs is a fixed belief about faith, so the claim contradicts itself; on this view, nobody discusses religion without some dogmatic starting point.

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