Fundamentalists Quotes

• 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
  • Religious
  • Religion
  • Problems

• What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith - encouraging and lionizing suicide bombers and killing women and children, hardly in keeping with the teachings of Prophet Mohammed.

  

  Alexander Haig
  • Women
  • Children
  • Faith

• India has become a soft target for Islamic fundamentalists. Moreover, the Uttar Pradesh government has a soft stance towards fundamentalists. It could have acted after the intelligence report but it did not.

  

  Uma Bharti
  • Islamic
  • India
  • Target

• You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Science
  • Dressing
  • Fundamentalists

• The fundamental religious objection to the theory of evolution is not scientific but moral. Fundamentalists believe that evolutionary theory must be opposed because it leads to rampant immorality, on both the personal and political scales. The basic cause of this immorality is atheism.

  

  Elizabeth S. Anderson
  • Evolution
  • Atheism
  • Immorality

• So do fundamentalists believe in majority rights or minority rights? The answer is, apparently, neither. They'll pull whichever argument suits them out of its file when necessary, but basically they are unprincipled on the issue of school prayer. They have a big double standard that basically says, "Whatever I want is right.

  

  Bob Altemeyer
  • Believe
  • Prayer
  • Argument

• I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Remember
  • Death
  • Reality

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

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Mood
  • Correction
  • Fundamentalists

• Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Religious
  • Violence
  • Conspirator