80 Quotes About Religious-fundamentalism

London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications. Ideas minted in Britain – the notion that it is bigoted to oppose bigotry; 'Islamophobic' to oppose clerics whose first desire is to oppress Muslims – swirl out through the press and the net to lands where they can do real harm.

The belief that the world was created yesterday seems to hold great appeal to those born at that time.

I am pain stricken to say that, various “educational” institutions have adopted the medieval doctrine "fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom" as their motto. Let me tell you this, fear of the Lord, Santa Claus, Krishna, Thor, Hulk or any other imaginary being brings merely the illusion of wisdom, not wisdom. And illusion of wisdom is a billion times more harmful than lack of wisdom.

Any book that claims to be a book of life and love while demanding absolute obedience is but a book of death and degradation.

Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.

…jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you’re trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.

Forget all the formal decency of tolerance, and simply love your fellow humans. And the Self within you shall attain the highest pedestal of greatness, way higher than all the book-learned preachers in the world.

Dehypnotize the world, my friend, and you shall witness the dawn of real religion – the religion, not of books, but of people.

When someone assumes a two thousand year old book to be perfection, there is no reasoning with such a person.