Fundamentalism Quote by John Shelby Spong Download Open image “Hysterical fundamentalism is not the way into the future; it is the last gasp of the past.” — John Shelby Spong ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fundamentalism Hysterical Lasts Past Time Way
It will take a decade or two, but fundamentalism is going to burn itself. — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
There's an element of paradox there - that at least you know where you stand with the fundamentalists. I mean, they're absolutely clear in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past? — John Leonard Copy Share Image
All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time. — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The future is here, now, and the past is full of actual deeds, real history. Utopias hardly have the meat on their bones to… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
So when you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“R.C. Sproul has written that "we live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization." As far as… — John Piper Copy Share Image
The way that I see Christianity is that its role is to enhance the life of every person. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The Sins of Scripture is an interesting title; most people don't put sins and scripture together in the same title. It jars people. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“When a human life is open to all that humanity can be, humanity and divinity flow together as one. It was and is a… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I don't see Jesus as rescuing the fallen; I see Jesus as expanding the potential of life. The primary reason the old idea of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
We live in a very pluralistic society today. There are Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, atheists, Roman Catholics, Evangelical Christians, and Christians like me. There are… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The Bible was written between 3,000 and 2,000 years ago, and it's filled with the knowledge that people had in that period of time, some of which you and I rejected long ago. The Bible says that women are property, that homosexuals ought to be put to death, that anybody who worships a false God ought to be executed, that… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share
We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Some people think prayer stops bullets or rockets or land mines. It doesn't. That's magic, that's not God. Sometimes, you're just in the wrong… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The Hebrew scriptures say it's okay to enslave anybody except your fellow Jews. It says you should enslave only your neighbors. I say to… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Despite the fact that, the idea of religion has been filled by the human society with all sorts of garbage, and thus been made complicated beyond common human comprehension, in reality, there is nothing simpler than the idea of religion. It is this simple. The religion of a computer is to compute - the religion of a scorpion is to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share
Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into three parts (Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the center, Shi'ites in the south), the Middle East would be exposed to the onslaught of Iranian fanaticism, pro-Western Arab regimes would collapse. Israel would be surrounded by aggressive Islamic… — Uri Avnery Copy Share
“When a person irrationally and quite pathologically sticks to the creeds of his scriptures too much, it can turn even a great human being… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists or even a coherent philosophy or dogma, it is difficult to define or measure the unorganized New Age movement. But in every major U.S. and European city, thousands who seek insight and personal growth cluster around a metaphysical… — John Naisbitt Copy Share
“Pilgrim's Regress (Sonnet 2324) Mirage mistaken as message, when ethnic cleansing feels enlightened, Sinai becomes septic, Bethlehem becomes Bedlam. Dogma decreed as divine, when superstition feels highly sacred, Vrindavan becomes a garbage dump, Ayodhya becomes capital of savages. When another's belief is delusion, but our belief is religion, Mecca becomes a pilgrimage of maniacs, Damascus becomes ulcer to civilization. The… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share
I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that's Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
I think in times of fear and hysteria in a culture, gender experimentation as it pertains to men has to go underground because it… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
I have no religious belief myself, but I don't think we should fight about it. In particular, I think that we should not rubbish… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“When ethnic cleansing feels enlightened, Sinai becomes septic, Bethlehem becomes Bedlam.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“The world needs the kind of religion that sets humanity free, not the kind that binds it with textual fanaticism. The world needs the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“...'fundamentalism' and 'liberalism' and terrorism.' These labels only tell us partial truths. We must use them humbly, guardedly, Niebuhr would say, aware of the… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image