Quotes About Fundamentalism

to make of this murder? Fundamentalists see in that willingness to kill innocents confirmation of Romans 13:1. This snippet of Paul's best-known epistle is a key verse for the Christian Right: "For there is no power but of God; the powers that be are ordained of God." Obeying one's superiors, according to this logic, is an act of devotion to the God

In effect, Saudi Arabia legitimizes fundamentalism, religious discrimination, intolerance and the oppression of women. Saudi women not only can't drive, but are also told by some clerics that they mustn't wear seatbelts for fear of showing the outlines of their bodies.

An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.

Rebuilding Afghanistan is not going to be solved by pouring billions in. Getting rid of the Taliban does not rid us of the problems of fundamentalism and instability.

Someone should tell the fundamentalists that even Advaita philosophy in Hinduism talks of oneness in all existence.

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.)

INFORMATION: as used in mathematical information theory, this denotes the amount of unpredictability in a message; information is, roughly, what you do not expect to hear. In this sense, information may be true or false, but is always a small surprise. Resistance to new information measures the degree of Fundamentalism in a culture, a sub-culture, or an individual.

The New Fundamentalists are not as far separated from the Old Fundamentalists as they like to think they are.

The New Fundamentalists have some dim respect for Rule A, which is deeply embedded in modern Western culture, even while their Faith drives them to act on Rule B. This leads them to remarkable flights of Irrational Rationalism.

Being modeltheists, the Fundamentalists of course reject any model but their own Eternally True Model; but why are they always especially sarcastic and suspicious when Oriental or African sources are quoted? Bronowski, we noted, said frankly that the Japanese are incapable of seeing the world objectively — i.e. the way he saw it — but how many Fundamentalists think that, too, but are too politic to say it openly?

We can all be glad that the word coincidence exists. Otherwise the Materialist Fundamentalists would find these stories just as puzzling and frightening as the Religious Fundamentalists will find them.

A field that depends on what people believe is unthinkable to a Fundamentalist Materialist, but social studies seems to need such fields.

Leaving aside these experiences or hallucinations of creativity and growth or self-criticism and self-overcoming — we shall return to them — it appears that most of what I have been calling Idolatry and Fundamentalism can be biologically described as normal primate behavior — mechanical imprinting and conditioning combined with normal territorial pugnacity.

Those who have had similar forbidden perceptions will have a certain sympathy for Mr. Devereux. I continue to maintain that Fundamentalist Materialism, like other Fundamentalisms, is, or appears within psychological models to be, a defense mechanism, and within neurological models, an editing-out device, to stave off the shock and sense of conceptual rape that causes the unsophisticated to panic when confronted with wonder about the nature of Reality.

The Old Agnosticism defined itself chiefly by its opposition to the dogmas of religious Fundamentalism. The New Agnosticism of this book seems to define itself by its opposition to the dogmas of materialist/rationalist Fundamentalism. Yet the agnostic attitude — which I keep gently hinting is also the creative attitude, the Po attitude — remains similar. The agnostic does not want to be bulldozed into joining a stampede of any sort, or bowing to any Idol.

Fundamentalist science is similar to other fundamentalisms. Lacking humor, charity and some measure of self-doubt, it behaves intolerantly, fanatically and savagely to all heretics. Eventually, like all closed ideological systems, it becomes comical and overtly ridiculous — and that shall be my main demonstration.

As with many religious fundamentalists, business for her was part of the religion; the two dogmas were mutually reinforcing, part of the same system. Reason

As with many religious fundamentalists, business for her was part of the religion; the two dogmas were mutually reinforcing, part of the same system. Reason had nothing to do with it.

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

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

Radical Muslims fly planes into buildings. Radical Christians kill abortion doctors. Radical Atheists write books.

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

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

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.