Fundamentalism Quotes

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

Blind faith is not real religion my friend.

In a society of thinking humanity, it should always be, humans first, and then Gods, Krishna or otherwise.

Why should a religion claim that it is not bound to abide by the standpoint of reason! If one does not take the standard of reason, there cannot be any true judgment, even in the case of religion.

Fundamentalism not only fuels devastating acts of violence, but also all kinds of primitive prejudicial behaviors, such as Misogyny, Polygamy, Homophobia, and Islamophobia.

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

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.", June 16, 1918)

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.

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

Indoctrination is not just demeaning to the human conscience, it is lethal for the flourishing psychology of the hungry, young mind.

Harmony also is not a luxury, it is an evolutionary necessity, if we are to advance further. And harmony cannot be compromised for any book in the world, no matter how ancient, or who wrote it.

Islamophobia defines whether a person is really a thinking and sentient sapiens or an ignorant caveman.

There is no religion better than love, no color better than the color of happiness and no language better than the language of compassion.

There are more things in our biology that make us one, than there are to set us apart.

Any idea of separation is bondage. True liberation of the mind is in non-differentiation.

Truth, by all means is the ultimate reward for all the sufferings of the human mind that often compel even the strongest of characters to get down on his or her knees.

The scriptures are just books. It all depends on you, whether you are going to learn goodness and compassion from them, or use them to destroy your environment.

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

No Lord Almighty created the humans out of personal will. Creationism is simply a myth created by the weak and ignorant humans out of a psychological need to have a sense of eternal security.

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

It has always been science versus fundamentalism, not science versus religion.

When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood, ' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.

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

Fundamentalism of any kind, be it religious, atheistic, political or educational, is the greatest threat to human excellence – it is a threat to progress – it is a threat to greatness.

The Christians had an almost miraculous talent for turning wine into water.

If you are truly able to walk in the shoes of Christ, the very label of religion called Christianity would disappear from the face of earth.

He (Jesus) gave up his life not because of the so-called sins of humanity, but because he was too adamant to give in to orthodox monstrosity.

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.

You see, it doesn't matter if they're wrong. From 9/11 to recent shootings here in the United States, there's nothing more dangerous than a true believer on his own crazy mission.

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?

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

Christ did to the Jewish orthodoxy, what Buddha did to the Hindu orthodoxy.

Think of the good that Christ imparted on the society. And think of the great evil that has been done through fanaticism over one damn phrase “salvation through Christ, the Son of God.

Jesus recognized that God within him and became Christ - so did Siddhartha Gautama and became Buddha - so did I - and so can you.

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

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.

Real teachers like Jesus, Buddha, Nanak, Rumi have much more to teach humanity, than the imaginary figure Krishna, concocted by an ancient Indian man named Vyasa.

I was brought up Christian, then I was agnostic and then I realized I was atheist... This movie [Agora] is about fundamentalism and hate.

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

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

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

The entire idea of sin, is based on books of the dead people. It is a sociological invention founded on textual fanaticism.

Christians today who view the Bible as God's unadulterated and inerrant word are rightly labeled fundamentalists, while Muslims who think the same of the Qur'an are simply considered Muslims.

Sikhism emerged as a ray of hope for the people of India who were stuck in obscurity – who craved for a way out from the rigorous battle between Hindu and Muslim orthodoxy.

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

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own c

With its continued dismissal of the law of God in ethics, Fundamentalism expressed both a "spiritualized" form of situational ethics and a "Christianly submissive" statism.

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

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

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