He was criticizing Catholicism for relying on reason. You certainly can't then generalize and say Catholicism is anti-reason, so you can't say religion is anti-

He was criticizing Catholicism for relying on reason. You certainly can't then generalize and say Catholicism is anti-reason, so you can't say religion is anti-reason. What you call dogma is largely a body of knowledge that has been passed down the same way scientific knowledge has been passed down. Ignoring it isn't very different to ignoring the body of published scientific literature and insisting on rediscovering everything for yourself.