Quotes About Fundamentalism

Fundamentalism does mean reading quite conservatively and literally, saying 'the Bible is the word of God and we have to follow it. What it says is this.'

There is an undeniable need to stop candy-flossing the impact of fundamentalism.

We must first be able to look honestly at fundamentalism in our own backyard, if we are to have any hope of weeding it out.

Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

There are fundamentalist psychopaths in every religion in the world. Every single one.

Christianity isn't the only group that has fundamentalists.

Like 'God's Not Dead,' the fundamentalist Christian movie that has become a popular hit, 'Transcendence' is essentially a dramatized debate. And as 'God's Not Dead' stacks the rhetorical cards for the Deity's existence, the Pfister film eventually hangs back with the Luddites.

There's a difference between being a fundamentalist and being al-Qaeda and being Muslim. It's absurd to think otherwise.

I've about given up on the fundamentalists, who have become so legalistic and letter-bound to the Bible.

I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong.

My first memories are of picketing ex-servicemen's funerals and telling their families they were going to burn in hell.

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

Fundamentalists are crazy. They're the real world equivalent to the evil geniuses of our spy fiction and our superhero comics. They want to mold the world into a specific shape that they really believe in, and if you don't believe in that, if you can't relate to that, it just seems crazy.

O crescimento do fanatismo pode ter relação com o fato de que quanto mais complexas as questões se tornam, mais as pessoas anseiam por respostas simples. Fanatismo e fundamentalismo muitas vezes têm uma resposta com uma só sentença para todo o sofrimento humano.

Muito cuidado, o fanatismo é extremamente infeccioso, mais contagioso do que qualquer vírus. Pode-se contrair fanatismo facilmente, até mesmo ao tentar vencê-lo ou combatê-lo. Basta ler os jornais ou ver televisão para verificar como as pessoas se convertem facilmente em fanáticos antifanáticos, em fanáticos antifundamentalistas, em cruzados antijihad.

The spread of religious fundamentalism throughout the world right now is men retrenching to undo the civil and social advances of women; to reestablish male power as a fundamental reality by reestablishing gender as an absolute. This requires rigorous tightening of restraints on male sexual behavior as well as intensifying civil and sexual controls on women.

They believe in the literal truth of the Koran.

Sayyid Qutb

They are extreme in their devotion to the literal word of the Koran and the hadith

Fundamentalist Christians support Israel because they believe that the final consolidation of Jewish power in the Holy Land—specifically, the rebuilding of Solomon's temple—will usher in both the Second Coming of Christ and the final destruction of the Jews.

Fundamentalist models of scriptural authority Ã¢â'¬â€œ and even official attitudes towards it in non-fundamentalist churches Ã¢â'¬â€œ elide this historical dimension by treating the Bible as in some sense a single book.

Clarence Darrow," the New York Times proclaimed in its lead story, "bearded the lion of Fundamentalism today, faced William Jennings Bryan and a court room filled with believers of the literal word of the Bible and with a hunch of his shoulders and a thumb in his suspenders defied every belief they hold sacred.