“Christ the man died long ago, but Christ the idea of love, still exists, not in any church, rather in the mind… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelievers and in any case contemptuous of Christianity.… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
You know, in America, Christian fundamentalism vs. science. You know, be it teaching Darwinian evolutionary theory or stem cell res- You know,… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
“Grief, my friend, forces us to search our souls and find answers to issues that constrain us from becoming better human beings.” — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
One of my great experiences in life was to be interviewed on a late-night talk show by a guy named Tom Snyder.… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“People fight over religion, because they don't understand religion. They think reading a few Bibles, Qurans and Vedas makes them religious. Books… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Real teachers like Jesus, Buddha, Nanak, Rumi have much more to teach humanity, than the imaginary figure Krishna, concocted by an ancient… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Dead Men's Tale (The Sonnet) They say, time and tide wait for none, Lest the bird learns it can fly. The best… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I remember a Buddhist teachers reflections on the Holocaust...What terrible karma those Jews mustve had... This kind of fundamentalism, which blames the… — David Loy Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism fills you with answers before you even think to ask the questions. — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
There's a religious basis to their [Bush and Chaney] kind of conservatism. It's rooted in a kind of fundamentalism. I'm afraid of… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
“Savages measure religion by the harvest of converts, the civilized find holiness in helping beyond religion.” — Abhijit Naskar 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
Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people. — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
“Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Rain doesn't check bank balance, soil doesn't require DNA test - breath doesn't ask for proof of residence, medicine doesn't require faith… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience... — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
“Never be sheep, never be pawn - never let no primate ruin the dawn. Gospel, gov-spell, it's all a front - first… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“To understand our faith -- to theologize in the Catholic tradition -- we need philosophy. We must use the philosophical language of… — George Cardinal Pell Copy Share Image
It is true that a great deal of the rhetoric of the new atheism is often just the confessional rote of materialist… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you think of your own mother to be the only true mother in the world and thereby start belittling people from… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image