I really don't want to offend anybody, but I find all forms of religious fundamentalism frightening. — Cody Fern Copy Share Image
“When ethnic cleansing feels enlightened, Sinai becomes septic, Bethlehem becomes Bedlam.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It's important to produce economic development. Fundamentalism develops even faster with misery. — Ali Bongo Ondimba Copy Share Image
“I won't fit inside insect colonies with compost for brain and bloodlust for divinity.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
“You didn't learn the Bible as a Fundamentalist. You learned fragments of Old Testament legalism mixed with Behaviorism & Nietzschean ethics” — Jeri Massi Copy Share Image
Elite fundamentalism has always going to be involved with a certain set of conservative interests, but certainly not exclusively Republican. — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
“The greatest Church is within you, and it is made of love, courage and conscience.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“People often ask me, what my religion is. I tell them, I am a Christian to the Christian, a Jew to the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
These are the elements of an emerging order that may prove to be as dangerous as any fundamentalism that history has produced.… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
An Associated Press report by Chicago-based reporter Sharon Cohen in May 1993 examined Christian fundamentalists and concluded that they were prone to… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
“How dare a scripture tell someone that the person is born sinful and requires a messiah to save him or her! Human… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The President, in talking about freedom and democracy, is sparking a wave of very positive democratic sentiment that might help us override… — Bill Richardson Copy Share Image
Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Be a human being and you'd automatically be religious, but if you try to be a scripture-worm then you'd be neither religious,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable to comprehend dissent from its basic superstitions,… — Henry Louis Mencken Copy Share Image
“There are many instances in history of people who allow their skepticism to cut the nerve of moral effort, and there are… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“I am pain stricken to say that, various “educational” institutions have adopted the medieval doctrine "fear of the lord is the beginning… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that your fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Bhutto represents everything the fundamentalists hate - a powerful, highly-educated woman operating in a man's world, seemingly unafraid to voice her independent… — Benazir Bhutto Copy Share Image
Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath… — Francis Collins 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
The driving force behind today's terrorist threat is Islamist fundamentalism. The struggle we are engaged in is, at root, ideological. During the… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
Even strong as they are today, rich countries should have no illusion: nobody is safe in aworld of injustices.War will never bring… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Copy Share Image
“The world has plenty room for everyone, but no world is room enough for the bigot.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Religion is the process of internal growth, not a lifeless bag of foolish words.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Any scripture that demands irrefutable obedience must be discarded at once.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I believe that in pretty much every religion there is always a small group of fundamentalists. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals. — Jeff Sharlet Copy Share Image
I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Terrorism has nothing to do with religion, Islam or otherwise. Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Faith can be unholy, science can be inhuman, none depends on the tool, all depends on the person.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Any religion that does not evolve with time, either gets destroyed or destroys the world.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It seems to be almost a law of physics, that the winds of change awaken fear and fundamentalism. — Elizabeth Lesser 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
“They say, dead men tell no tale, and yet, we live our lives based on dead men's tale.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Scriptures are meant to serve humanity, not humanity to serve scriptures.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“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
“Divinity in its purest form requires no imagination or hallucination. It sustains itself simply with the conscientious powers of your mind.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Hysterical fundamentalism is not the way into the future; it is the last gasp of the past. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
