{"quotes":[{"text":"The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the “sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew.” I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being.","author":"David James Duncan","tags":["fundamentalists","mysticism","religion","religious-freedom","spirituality"],"id":9436,"author_id":"David+James+Duncan"},{"text":"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.","author":"Brad Meltzer","tags":["belief","conspiracies","conspiracists","conspiracy-theories","conspiracy-theory","danger","dangerous-minds","fundamentalism","fundamentalists","missions","radicalism","radicals","terror","terrorism","terrorists","true-belief","true-believers","warfare","zealotry","zealots"],"id":74928,"author_id":"Brad+Meltzer"},{"text":"No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["bible","brainy","christianity","fundamentalism","fundamentalists","gita","hinduism","holy-war","infidelity","infidels","islam","quran","rational-thinking","reasoning","religious-extremism","religious-fundamentalism","religious-violence","scriptures"],"id":75948,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"If one does not have the basic conscientious capacity to refute the primitive textual verses of the scriptures that demand one to kill or torture another being for holding a different belief system than one's own, then that entity is no being of the civilized human society, it is merely a pest from the stone-age.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","fundamentalism","fundamentalists","holy-war","infidelity","infidels","rational-thinking","reasoning","religious-extremism","religious-fundamentalism","religious-violence","scriptures"],"id":96343,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"From the vantage of a mid-1970's consensus that regarded the United States as having entered a post-Protestant era, the rise of a Religious Right dominated not only by Protestants but by fundamentalists was not the way the story was supposed to go. People like Jerry Falwell looked like party crashers who, rather than slikinking from bar to buffet in hopes of going unnoticed, demanded that the vegetarian, alcohol-imbibing hosts serve meat and tell the bartender to go home.","author":"D.G. Hart","tags":["fundamentalists","political","religious-right"],"id":313685,"author_id":"D.G.+Hart"},{"text":"Usually, fundamentalists, be they Christian, Muslim, or any faith, shape and interpret religious thought to make it conform to and legitimize a conservative status quo. Fundamentalist thinkers use religion to justify supporting imperialism, militarism, sexism, racism, homophobia. They deny the unifying message of love that is at the heart of every major religious tradition.","author":"bell hooks","tags":["christian","christianity-faith","fundamentalism","fundamentalists","muslim","religion","religious","spiritual","spirituality"],"id":315950,"author_id":"bell+hooks"},{"text":"Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from scholarship at all lest it corrupt their pure faith. It is time to end this standoff, and to reestablish a hermeneutic of trust (itself a sign of the gospel!) in place of the hermeneutic of suspicion which the church has so disastrously borrowed from the postmodern world.","author":"N.T. Wright","tags":["bible","christianity","church","doubt","fundamentalists","scripture","skepticism","suspicion","theology","trust"],"id":408030,"author_id":"N.T.+Wright"},{"text":"Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["fanatics","fundamentalists","reason","religion"],"id":413408,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["deceit","fundamentalists","religious","zealots"],"id":416576,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"But if subjective pietism is not the real crux of this all-important Gospel, if it is instead belief in the plan of salvation, how are we not dealing with 'salvation by (cognitive) works' and Gnosticism (salvation by special knowledge)? Fundamentalists hotly deny it, but isn't it finally a matter of believers in the right religion being saved and everyone else being disqualified?","author":"Robert M. Price","tags":["fundamentalists","gnosticism","salvation"],"id":449068,"author_id":"Robert+M.+Price"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}