288 Quotes About Fundamentalism

Good people voted Republican, the party of family values, and went to church on Sunday. When women had children, they quit their jobs and stayed home like the mothers they were meant to be. Men belonged with women and women with men. Everyone seemed to share the belief that the country was on a downward spiral and only prayer and divine intervention would set things right again.

Fundamentalism is a lot like idolatry because it renders truth into something stagnant and lifeless. For the Christian fundamentalist, God becomes something that can be understood in the mind- a conceptual idol.

Religion is the opposite of freedom. God is a dictator. That's why dictators can so easily manipulate religious fundamentalists. They're used to it.

If history has shown anything, it is that where there is a God, there is an institution trying to lock up that God in its lifeless structure of orthodoxy, in order to have authority over people and sell tickets to the Kingdom of that God. Thus emerged all the pompous lies about the extraterrestrial Kingdom of God or Heaven.

Patriotism or Nationalism without reasoning is what I call “Nationalist Fundamentalism”, which is as dangerous as “Religious Fundamentalism”.

In the world of primitive savages, religion and bigotry go hand in hand. But, in the world of civilized humans, religion and reason must go hand in hand.

Terrorism has nothing to do with religion, Islam or otherwise. Terrorism is born of fundamentalism not of religion.

In the ancient times, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking, Krishna may have proven to be a glorious figure to be adored and relied on in times of distress, but in the modern world of conscientious humans, no Krishna is higher than the Human Self.

You must remember, the so-called Jihadis who are in reality, mentally unstable individuals run by Quranic fundamentalists, do not represent the whole Muslim population of the world.