Christian Fundamentalism Quotes

“At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelievers and in any case contemptuous of Christianity. I have my own differences with both of these savants, but is the Republican Party really prepared to disown such modern intellectuals as it can claim, in favor of a shallow, demagogic and above all sectarian religiosity?

Perhaps one could phrase the same question in two further ways. At the last election, the GOP succeeded in increasing its vote among American Jews by an estimated five percentage points. Does it propose to welcome these new adherents or sympathizers by yelling in the tones of that great Democrat bigmouth William Jennings Bryan? By insisting that evolution is 'only a theory'? By demanding biblical literalism and by proclaiming that the Messiah has already shown himself? If so, it will deserve the punishment for hubris that is already coming its way. (The punishment, in other words, that Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson believed had struck America on Sept. 11, 2001. How can it be that such grotesque characters, calling down divine revenge on the workers in the World Trade Center, are allowed a respectful hearing, or a hearing at all, among patriotic Republicans?).

[. . . And Why I'm Most Certainly Not! -- The Wall Street Journal, Commentary Column. May 5, 2005]”
― Christopher Hitchens

“The belief that the world was created yesterday seems to hold great appeal to those born at that time.”
― Gary Malone, Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

“You didn't learn the Bible as a Fundamentalist. You learned fragments of Old Testament legalism mixed with Behaviorism & Nietzschean ethics”
― Jeri Massi

“The Christians had an almost miraculous talent for turning wine into water.”
― Ken MacLeod, The Star Fraction

“Dear Vatican (The Sonnet)

You took a man,
And turned him savior,
You took his love,
And vilified her honor.
You cooked up stories,
And added some magic,
Put in a few guilt traps,
Everything was copasetic.
You sanctioned four books,
Buried the rest for blasphemy,
For you wanted no one to know,
JC was a mortal practicing humanity.
You wanna know what is holiness?
Burn your bible and rush to the helpless.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Girl Over God: The Novel

“Donald Trump, whose uncritical support for Israel and belief that America is fundamentally a nation for white Christians exacerbates a divide between the two largest Jewish populations in the world.”
― Adam Serwer, The Cruelty Is the Point: The Past, Present, and Future of Trump's America

“The Vatican has been sending out missionaries across the world not to help the poor, but to convert the poor, in exchange for charity. In this respect, empirically speaking, the only religion that has been practicing the tradition of actual selfless service religiously, is Sikhism. Till this day Sikh langars or soup-kitchens across the world feed millions of people regularly, no matter their status, faith or ethnicity, without asking for anything in return. Religious charity in exchange for religious conversion is the most sacrilegious act of all. In the end, it has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with service. Either serve or don't, there is no spreading the word. Spread good acts, not good news.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“In America, if you dismiss religion from a lecture podium, you often hear noises of shock: gasps, sharp intakes of breath. In America, you can't be elected dogcatcher if you can't prove that you go to church every Sunday and have a close relationship with the priest there.”
― Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

“I decided long ago that I didn't need the advice of Catholic priests or Wahhabi mullahs on that subject. The child-abuse scandals in the Catholic church, and the authoritarian and even murderous crimes carried out by Wahhabi Islam's most powerful patrons, the Saudi ruling family, would convince me that the ideologies which they adhere to are not the best resources from which to develop and ethical world view.”
― Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

“The Pope could not go and make his statement in Teheran or Beijing. as long as Islam and Communism(and in some countries, Buddhism) prevent Christian proselytizing in their domains, the conversion of Asia essentially means the conversion of India, which may then function as a base for further expansion once the rest of Asia becomes more accommodating.”
― Koenraad Elst, Decolonizing the Hindu mind: Ideological development of Hindu revivalism