#fundamentalism

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

"I bet you've seen the fundamentalist bumper sticker that says, "God said it! I believe it! That settles it!"It must be a typo because what the driver really means is, "I said it! God believes it! That settles it!"

"Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought."

"There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty."

"How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape."

"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."(Canton, OH, Anti-War Speech, June 16, 1918)"

"If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction."

"Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse."

"Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse."(History Will Teach Us Nothing)"

"You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

"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."

"People wrap themselves in their beliefs. And they do it in such a way that you can't set them free. Not even the truth will set them free."

"The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, 'All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions."