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
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 a world beset by fundamentalists of both believing and secular varieties, it must be possible to balance a rejection of religious… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The Warrenite Christian is like a Star Wars geek who dressed up in costume and dearly wishes he lived the Star Wars… — Robert M. Price 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
I'm not writing for fundamentalists. I'm writing for the people who have been repelled by that kind of thinking and yet who… — John Shelby Spong 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 believe in Jesus or God. But I do believe that fundamentalists in religion or anything else are bad, and that… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
“I do not give a damn whether a person is a scientist, a philosopher or a theologian If that person cannot recognize… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“From the vantage of a mid-1970's consensus that regarded the United States as having entered a post-Protestant era, the rise of a… — D.G. Hart Copy Share Image
“To the representatives of theoretical Islam, i.e. Islamic fundamentalists, the Jews, the Christians, the Hindus, the Buddhists and all other humans who… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Some people are convinced that they have the truth and are anxious to ensure others have it. These are the fundamentalists. Some… — Peter Vardy Copy Share Image
“Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from… — N.T. Wright 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
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
“Organized religion is the school of hate, and never more exultant in its righteous indignation than when it talks about gay and… — Paul Monette Copy Share Image
The fundamentalists were equally stymied. “We were worried about Adam and Steve,” a Baptist minister said. “Should we have been more worried… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Religion is supposed to be a positive thing when you look at the true religions around the world, not the fundamentalists. You… — Anthony Joshua Copy Share Image
The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the “sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Society in general maintains such a vested interested in its cozy habits and solidified belief systems that it had rather die -… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Today we're seeing fundamental conflicts within political Islam, with the fundamentalists on the one side and the moderates on the other. Who… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image
It would be catastrophic if one day these fundamentalists Christians gain enough political power to enforce their literal understanding of Mosaic Law. — Mel White Copy Share Image
Fundamentalists who say they are not going to pay any attention to the charts are like a doctor who says he’s not… — Bruce Kovner Copy Share Image
We should not allow the fundamentalists and the bigots to take over and speak for the great faiths any more than we… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it's a bunch of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“All we would need to do would be to read the Bible and accept what it says as what really happened. That,… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
I think now with fundamentalists, people who treat belief with a total lack of humor or empathy for any other viewpoint than… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I think there are fundamentalists all over the world. I think all religions have fundamentalists who have different interpretations of scriptures that… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I still get stopped by those freaky fundamentalists going "Oh, I'm so glad you did Tribulation." And I wanna go, "Don't count… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
The common people don't believe this kind of religion [of islamic fundamentalists] because first and foremost they want to solve their basic… — Abdul Sattar Edhi Copy Share Image
In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Christians today who view the Bible as God's unadulterated and inerrant word are rightly labeled fundamentalists, while Muslims who think the same… — Hamed Abdel-Samad Copy Share Image
I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Christian churches and Muslim groups have no more right to have their say than women's institutes or trades unions. The government has… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“You must remember, the so-called Jihadis who are in reality, mentally unstable individuals run by Quranic fundamentalists, do not represent the whole… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“There is a basic terrorist germ in fundamentalism – a germ that is purely genocidal. This germ drives the psyche of mentally… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came… — Steve Coogan Copy Share Image