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fundamentalist
«If I am right, then [religious fundamentalists] will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If THEY are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
fundamentalist, Fundamentalists, Go To Heaven, hypocrites
«Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles»
Author: James D. Watson
| About:
Evolution,
Principles,
Religion
| Keywords:
adherence, doctrinaire, doctrinaires, evolution, fundamentalist, Fundamentalists, minority, objections, reasoning, theory of, theory of evolution
«The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?»
Author: Judith Hayes
| Keywords:
ark, bears, biblical, flood, for example, fundamentalist, Fundamentalists, implausible, loading, Noah, Palestine, polar, The Flood
«Fundamentalists are to Christianity what paint-by-numbers is to art»
Author: Robin Tyler
(Activist)
| Keywords:
art, Christianity, fundamentalist, Fundamentalists, numbers, paint
«The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start (examining evolution), and then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science-or of any honest intellectual inquiry.»
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
| Keywords:
discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, domain, domains, evolution, examining, forcing, fundamentalist, Fundamentalists, inquiry, straitjacket
«Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America.»
Author: Florence King
| Keywords:
faith healing, fundamentalism, fundamentalist, Fundamentalists, Good Cheer, hymn, hymns, intellectualism, pink, puerile, rambunctious, regression, rose pink, vanished
«The fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable to comprehend dissent from its basic superstitions, or to grant any common honesty, or even any decency, to those who reject them»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
comprehend, decencies, decency, dissent, dissenting, dissents, fifty, fundamentalist, Fundamentalists, grant, honesty, reject, rut, ruts, rutting, superstitions, unable
«I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bereavement, fundamentalist, Fundamentalists, in reality, nihilist, nihilists, phenomenon, tenant, tenanted, tenanting, tenants, tenement, tenements, town
