Religion Fundamentalism Quotes

#1. In the domain of true religion, mere book-learning has no right to enter.

Abhijit Naskar

#2. Blind faith is not real religion my friend.

Abhijit Naskar

#3. Religion doesn't divide the society. The humans reading the wrong books to understand religion, do.

Abhijit Naskar

#4. Religious fundamentalists belong in a museum at the exhibit of medieval antiquities, not in any nation.

Abhijit Naskar

#5. The real Jihad is an internal process, not an external one.

Abhijit Naskar

#6. Most of the oppression of Muslims in the world right now is carried out by other Muslims.

Salman Rushdie

#7. Fundamentalism is not motivated by fear. It is motivated by conviction.

Curtis A. Chamberlain

#8. You didn't learn the Bible as a Fundamentalist. You learned fragments of Old Testament legalism mixed with Behaviorism & Nietzschean ethics

Jeri Massi

#9. The tension between the essence of spiritual teachings and the harmful fundamentalism that often arises in the name of religion is an issue that has engaged my mind practically as far back as I can remember.

Radhanath Swami

#10. Brutality goes hand in hand with orthodoxy, be it Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Jewish, Atheistic or any other.

Abhijit Naskar

#11. The moral certitude of the state in wartime is a kind of fundamentalism. And this dangerous messianic brand of religion, one where self-doubt is minimal, has come increasingly to color the modern world of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.

Chris Hedges

#12. The more fundamentalist a person, the more immoral and inhuman he is.

Abhijit Naskar

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

Abhijit Naskar

#14. Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu heresy. How dare a bunch of goondas shrink the soaring majesty of the Vedas and the Upanishads to the petty bigotry of their brand of identity politics?

Shashi Tharoor

#15. The scientists who attack mainstream religion, rather than striving for peaceful coexistence with it, damage science, and also weaken the fight against fundamentalism.

Martin Rees

#16. 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.

Billy Graham

#17. The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.

Taslima Nasrin

#18. In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them, 'traditional family values' denotes their right to keep their children as ignorant as their grandparents (and to hate the same folks grand-dad hated.)

Robert Anton Wilson

#19. There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

Daniel Dennett

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

Gary Malone

#21. There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.

Bart D. Ehrman

#22. Morality does not come from a book, it comes from the human mind.

Abhijit Naskar

#23. Unlike most other world religions, Buddhism has never been too rigid in its structure.

Abhijit Naskar

#24. A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe," Max said. "And someone who thinks he knows the will of God better than anyone else.

Robin Wasserman

#25. Like the people of Israel who created a golden calf to represent God while Moses was away, fundamentalist Christians have built their own idols to represent God until Jesus returns. The religion of fundamentalism is idolatry.

Mel White

#26. When the conscience runs pure and strong in the heart of thinking humanity, there is not power in any fundamentalism to take hold of the human civilization and drag it back to the medieval days of barbarianism.

Abhijit Naskar

#27. A religion that demands absolutely irrefutable obedience, is anything but religion.

Abhijit Naskar

#28. In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.
(Canton, OH, Anti-War Speech, June 16, 1918)

Eugene V. Debs

#29. We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

Elisabeth Elliot

#30. You know," said Jehangir, breaking the silence, "it's only Muslims who use the term 'innovation' to mean something bad.

Michael Muhammad Knight

#31. Pure faith in the benevolece of the Divine can also degenerate into destructive forms of religion like othodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, fanaticism, black magic and witchcraft.

Nirmala Srivastava

#32. If you don't act now, the day is not far, that this beautiful planet of yours, which you call home, shall be turned into a dry barren wasteland by the blood-sucking fundamentalists.

Abhijit Naskar

#33. Religion comes not where reign fundamentalism and authoritarianism.

Abhijit Naskar

#34. How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.

Christopher Hitchens

#35. Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.

C.J. Sansom

#36. This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people.

Anwar Sadat

#37. Religious people claim that it's just the fundamentalists of each religion that cause problems. But there's got to be something wrong with the religion itself if those who strictly adhere to its most fundamental principles are violent bigots and sexists.

David G. McAfee

#38. Fundamentalism's strident denunciation of its opponents is a sign of its weakness, its dogmatic authoritarianism is a pathological mutation of faith.

Alan Aldridge

#39. My statement to Harris that his book contains much to admire is specious hyperbole. In The End of Faith, Harris rails against religious fundamentalism, which seems obvious, as well as against religious moderates, which seems intolerant.

Nick Flynn

#40. That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion.

Neil Kinnock

#41. Priesthood, Imamhood, Pundithood often come hand in hand with tyranny.

Abhijit Naskar

#42. Forget organized religions. Forget scriptures. Forget Gods, Fathers, Sons and Spirits. Forget all dogmas taught by the representatives of theoretical religion, and then only you shall be able to visualize the true core of religion.

Abhijit Naskar

#43. Holiness in the purest form is independent of all textual doctrines, all churches and all institutions.

Abhijit Naskar

#44. The Bible is not religion, nor are the Vedas. The Torah is not religion, nor is the Quran, or any other scripture on earth.

Abhijit Naskar

#45. What good is faith if it causes pain for another? What good is religion if it does no good? What good is any belief that leads to hate?

Jared Brock

#46. Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.

Azar Nafisi

#47. It's rather simple. God deliver us from people who know so little that they will kill for what little they know.

R. Joseph Hoffmann

#48. If religion, she also liked to say, is the opiate of the masses, fundamentalism is the amphetamine.

C.D. Wright

#49. We were busy judging everyone's spiritual state. We had a lot to do. Only God might be able to see their hearts and innermost thoughts, but we had a pretty good idea of how it was going to go for plenty of folks on the Judgment Day. Not so well.

Frank Schaeffer

#50. People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.

Umberto Eco

#51. Religion has kept all of us suffocated, I can't raise my voice you can't raise your voice, still they call us fundamentalists.

M.F. Moonzajer

#52. Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion too.

Steve Earle

#53. Fundamentalism isn't about religion, it's about power.

Salman Rushdie