288 Quotes About Fundamentalism

Religion is the process of internal growth, not a lifeless bag of foolish words.

También, desde el púlpito, don José había enseñado a los alumnos de diez años a decidir en situaciones límite: cuando un terrorista amenaza a la familia de un niño con una ametralladora y pide a ese niño que pise una Sagrada Forma para liberar a los suyos, el niño no tiene que pisarla, pues si el terrorista cumpliese su amenaza y disparase, su familia iría, entera y feliz, al cielo en santo martirio.

So do fundamentalists believe in majority rights or minority rights? The answer is, apparently, neither. They'll pull whichever argument suits them out of its file when necessary, but basically they are unprincipled on the issue of school prayer. They have a big double standard that basically says, "Whatever I want is right.

I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.

Beliefs divide us, values unite us." from Godless – Living a Valuable Life beyond Beliefs

I was a fundamentalist because my security and self-worth and sense of purpose in life were all wrapped up in getting God right — in believing the right things about him, saying the right things about him, and convincing others to embrace the right things about him too. ... I was a fundamentalist not because of the beliefs I held but because of how I held them: with a death grip.

At its most basic, the allure of fundamentalism, whether religious or ideological, liberal or conservative, is that it provides an appealing order to things that are actually disorderly.

Whenever we are tempted to despair about the shape of American Christianity, we should remember that Jesus never promised the triumph of the American church. He promised the triumph of the church. .

Many of us would pray not to die in a car crash before we were baptized, like other people pray to not get sick before their employee benefits kick in.