Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
“In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam,… — Samuel P. Huntington Copy Share Image
Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms… — Walden Bello Copy Share Image
Pure faith in the benevolece of the Divine can also degenerate into destructive forms of religion like othodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, fanaticism, black… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“If history has shown anything, it is that where there is a God, there is an institution trying to lock up that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism in most of its forms is the active creation of antibodies to some threatening [god] virus. As long as threatening religions… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
I think that there are no forces on this planet more dangerous to us all than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism, of all… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“Outside, most people knew that decades ago, the religious fundamentalists lost the ability to transform society when they became a political movement.… — Sigmund Brouwer Copy Share Image
“The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Salafists are fundamentalists who dedicate their lives to religious preaching, converting non-believers and defending the strict moral codes of Islamic law. Salafists… — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
“A religious individual may most gloriously carry out his or her own rituals, as a part of his or her cultural identity,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I now know that to do a worthwhile family history I must interpret the past without falling into either demonizing or unquestioning… — David Henry Hwang Copy Share Image
“Very little, however, has been written about how market fundamentalism has, from the very first moments, systematically sabotaged our collective response to… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to their faith before they explore it. As opposed to a… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Religion has a fanaticism problem - center religion on metaphor, and problem solved. Science has a freezing problem - center science on… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
You just can’t say that, just as you can’t say that all Christians are fundamentalists. We have our share of them (fundamentalists).… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“When a person irrationally and quite pathologically sticks to the creeds of his scriptures too much, it can turn even a great… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism is a kind of decision not to change your mind about something...Many of us are fundamentalists...because it worked pretty well for… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that's Christian, count me… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
There's nothing in the actual Bible that limits a Christian in their appreciation of or interest in science. Anti-science is purely a… — Moby Copy Share Image
“Forget organized religions. Forget scriptures. Forget Gods, Fathers, Sons and Spirits. Forget all dogmas taught by the representatives of theoretical religion, and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“If you want to find out if someone is truly holy, don't ask them whether they believe in god, ask them instead,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Religion has no work in justifying the man-made imaginations, hallucinations and delusions of the world. Real religion has to do with reality… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe," Max said. "And someone who thinks he… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
“Study of the scriptures is not the same as the study of religion and God. So far, we don't yet have a… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The best way to avoid a catastrophic conflict of beliefs is to be more compassionate about other people’s beliefs as long as… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“With its continued dismissal of the law of God in ethics, Fundamentalism expressed both a "spiritualized" form of situational ethics and a… — Greg L. Bahnsen Copy Share Image
In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“American foreign policy and social policy for decades. Christian fundamentalism in America has its roots in the history of the South after… — Andrew Himes Copy Share Image
My problem with all forms of fundamentalism is that the position is fixed. This is like talking about a fixed position as… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
“My nation, your nation, my religion, your religion, my culture, your culture, will be the end of us apes - outwardly fancy,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The treatment of fundamentalism may be said to have succeeded; the patient survived. But at least for the life of the mind,… — Mark Noll Copy Share Image
“Fundamentalism manifests itself in different shapes and colors. 'The Absolute Truth' and 'the Only Way' beliefs, which have always caused hatred, bloodshed… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
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