“The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.” PeopleWayProblemReligiousChosenTestamentOld TestamentFundamentalistCharter Author:Bruce Kent
“Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.” MenBelieveHumansFormLawReligiousHuman BeingsEvolutionFoolishFundamentalistClassification Author:J. Philippe Rushton
“Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the Kalahari Desert. Except for the garments, their deep religious trances might just as well be happening at a revival meeting or in the congregation of a fundamentalist TV preacher.... As we move further from the life of ignorance and superstition in which religion has its roots, we seem to need it more and more.... Why has religion become a force just when we'd have thought it would be losing ground to secularism?” WayNeedsFirstsWellsMayLongSeemsMightWould BeMovingForceReligiousAtheismIgnoranceTvsLosingHappeningsConcernedRootsMeetingsPositive AtheismDesertSuperstitionsPreacherCousinLong WayRevivalSecularismGarmentsFundamentalistCongregationTrance Author:Phil Donahue
“Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support his own narrow conception of education.” ChildrenStatesChristianParentReligiousSupportConceptionProtestantsFundamentalist Book:Toward a New Enlightenment: The Philosophy of Paul Kurtz Source: Toward a New Enlightenment: The Philosophy of Paul Kurtz
“In the eyes of the Associated Press, American Christianity, which springs from the Protestant Reformation, is fundamentalist. And Christian Fundamentalists, radical Muslims, Hindu extremists, and fanatical Zionists are all the same - bloodthirsty lunatics.” EyeChristianReligiousChristianitySpringPressesRadicalReformationExtremistProtestantsFundamentalistZionistProtestant Reformation Book:The Turning Tide Source: The Turning Tide