Fundamentalist Quotes

“Spiritual people use religion to become better people. Fundamentalists use religion to pretend they’re better than other people.”
― John Fugelsang, Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds

“The lesson of Left Behind is a warning to repent the sin of critical thinking, which the fundamentalist, eager for people to embrace the Gospel of irrational nonsense, equates with "intellectual pride.”
― Robert M. Price

“Fundamentalists offer us a "loving" God who is some kind of divine stalker.”
― Robert M. Price

“It’s a gospel of control over caring, power over humility, and judgment over mercy. They won’t fight for the words of Jesus, but they’re profoundly committed to stuff they believe he said.”
― John Fugelsang, Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds

“Only undesirable aliens in the world are the fascists, fanatics, fundamentalists, nationalists and xenophobes.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“These were the fundamentalists, the power-hungry grifters who took advantage of the fact that most people don’t know the Bible all that well. They were charlatans, frauds, hypocrites, and villains. And they made for great TV.”
― John Fugelsang, Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds

“Everyone in the United States of America had an opinion on the Westboro Baptist Church and anyone who said they didn't was lying.”
― Susan Kraus, All God's Children

“They could not know about the Mass, the tree, the presents. If they could see these things they would be able to see his soul, see how Satan's poison was making him question.”
― Susan Kraus, All God's Children

“To make tradition out of stagnation is to make fertilizer out of living veins.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Nationalism has nothing to do with culture, fundamentalism has nothing to do with religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Fundamentalists radicalize children for illegal terrorism, nationalists radicalize children for legal terrorism, I radicalize children for peace-n-oneness, using only their brain and backbone.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim

“Be the human your flesh appears to be, or go back to the jungle, your mind is suited so.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Human walks not in luxury suits,
but in dusty rags of the street -
human feasts with homeless folks,
and dies happy at their feet.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“Don't visit any institution where you have to leave your brain at the door.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“You barely speak one language, ramble doctrines from one dead book, can't see beyond the customs of your tribe, yet you say, your truth is the cosmic truth!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Fanaticism is compensation for insecurity, supremacy is compensation for inferiority.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“World has no shortage of monkeys who want to christianize, islamize, zionize or saffronize the society, but humans who behave human are in short supply.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Not faith, but blind faith is the biggest obstacle to eyes, mind, heart and spine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“Worship and prayer within limit improve wellbeing, but fanatic worship renders life lettuce.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iftar-e Insaniyat: The First Supper

“I don't write for sheep, cows, monkeys and donkeys, who comply with customs of prejudice-n-patriotism, I write for the humans who can love their neighbor, defying state propaganda and cultural validation.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“True religion cannot thrive in hate, what thrives in hate, cannot be religion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“Seeking sacredness through scripture literalism is like sunbathing in the microwave, it only burns your skin, and cooks your brain.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“To be a fanatic one must not seek the truth, to seek the truth one must not be a fanatic.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“Religion is not delusion, for most part it's therapeutic, but the notion that you're doomed if you don't pick a particular religion, is the most unholy, unkind, uncivilized, unsentient, inhuman mental illness of all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“More you talk of scripture, less you understand the sacred.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat

“To salute the flag is just as animal as burning a flag, to obey the scripture blind is just as savage as burning a scripture.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Nazmahal: Palace of Grace

“Nothing's easier than being an ape: obey the tribal chief, practice the state-approved religion, and never love a neighbor that your monkey king disapproves of - but to be human takes heart, brain, and backbone, three fundamental forces which invoke the very ruin of political power, for they pluck the apes from the cesspool of fear, and elevate them to human consciousness, which is adamantly allergic to primitive nonsense.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“The kingdom of god is within you, and you sold it to the highest bidder.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Why is it that, for one religion to be true, all other religions have to be false!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

“Mythology combined with blind faith results in mass hysteria.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop