Religious Fundamentalism Quotes

“…jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you’re trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.”
― Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky

“London is one of the world's centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications. Ideas minted in Britain – the notion that it is bigoted to oppose bigotry; 'Islamophobic' to oppose clerics whose first desire is to oppress Muslims – swirl out through the press and the net to lands where they can do real harm.”
― Nick Cohen

“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

“An elder was one who took your soul, your will, into his soul and his will. When you choose an elder, you renounce your own will and yield it to him in complete submission, complete self-abnegation" just like some Muslims who conseiders their sheikh as holy, some christians worship their (elder)”
― Dostoyevsky

“Religion organized is religion lost.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz

“When culture is code for division,
You gotta be uncultured to find assimilation.
When hagiographies are passed on as heritage,
To be heretic is the first course of action.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Good Seed (The Sonnet)

It is existentially impossible,
For all republicans to be inhuman fiend.
But when they violate human rights as daily choir,
It is also impossible to notice the good seed.
It is existentially impossible,
For all republicans to incite hate and violence.
But when a party coddles guns over children,
It is difficult to find anything good in them.
It is existentially impossible,
For all republicans to confuse divinity with division.
But when a party uses bible as an excuse for bigotry,
It is impossible to see the silent vessels of inclusion.
Forgive me, if at times I have been harsh at an entire party!
I know you're there, o good seed - it is time to grow some greenery.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Divinity is in every culture,
But no culture is pure divinity.
Human divided is human undivine,
Hatelessness is civilized divinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Human divided is human undivine.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Hatelessness is civilized divinity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“God is all in the mind,
What's wrong with that!
Art is also all in the mind,
So, is art nothing but dirt!

Dividers will always divide,
Haters will always hate.
Apes will find one excuse or another,
To justify their authoritarian trait.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

“Divinity is simple. Someone is in distress - you reach out to help. That's it. Then why do we complicate this simple act of helping out another being, with a ton of bible babble, koranic poppycock, vedic hogwash and so on!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was

“Instead of being chained to the dead,
Let us be each other's roots.
Be a garland that celebrates life,
Instead of a hangman's noose.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“On multiple occasions I've been called an antichrist, which couldn't be farther from the truth. If anything, I am radically pro-christ. My mission is to flood the world with Christs by the thousands, Buddhas by the hundreds, and Mevlanas by the millions.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Using scripture to decode morality is like using the abacus to code iOS.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Using scripture to decode morality,
is like using the abacus to code iOS.
Likewise, using mere reason to decode life,
is like trading in a family for computers.

Computers do have a role in family,
But computers are not family themselves.
Just like scriptures may have a role in life,
But scriptures alone ain't life themselves.

The coming generations will sure be free,
from the stupidity of fundamentalist religiosity.
But they'll be the victim of a new stupidity, i.e.
intellectual fundamentalism or militant logicality.

And trading in one stupidity for another,
only gets us stuck in derangement eternal.
Just know, love has no proof, love is the proof,
And, love has no gospel, love is the gospel.

When love is the center of our field of vision,
All things civilized attain their rightful place.
But when we replace love with either ritual or reason,
We end up with everything except peace and wellness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Centurion Sermon (Sonnet 1005)

Peace is an act of ceasefire,
Peace is an act of disarmament.
If you don't get this simple fact,
You need lessons on common sense.

Beer is no bravery,
Guns ain't no gallantry,
Dump your bazookas in museum,
Smell the roses with some coffee.

Dump your scripture, pick up a sport,
You'll learn a lot about honor and camaraderie.
Dump your constitution, pick up gardening,
You'll learn plenty about preserving life 'n liberty.

Nationalism is the greatest threat to peace.
Fundamentalism is the greatest threat to harmony.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Animals don't look like animals these days, some of them look quite fancy, suits and all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Rights of the living oughta be determined only by the living. If and when I become obsolete someday, it's me you oughta reject, not the living.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“Memorizing someone is not the same as cherishing someone's memories.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yarasistan: My Wounds, My Crown

“My God! Fundamentalists are taking over the world. They're even coming here to recruit the utterly fucked. Religion nowadays just fucks with people.”
― Rodrigo de Souza Leão, All Dogs Are Blue

“Religion organized is religion lost..”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mukemmel Musalman: Kafir Biraz, Peygamber Biraz

“Religious charity in exchange for religious conversation is the most sacrilegious act of all.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Freedom of religion can exist only, where there is religion of freedom.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım

“Khalsa means freedom from hate,
Khalistan means nationalizing hate.
Christ stands for love and compassion,
Chistian nationalism is Christ's death.
Sanatana Dharma is advaita sanskriti,
that is, a culture of nonsectarianism,
Hindutva means mindless saffronization.
Islam means working for peace and welfare,
Islamism is the ruin of synchronization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“The fact that many Europeans, including Fortuyn, were less liberated from religious yearnings than they might have imagined, made the confrontation with Islam all the more painful. This was especially true of those who considered themselves to be people of the Left. Some swapped the faiths of their parents for Marxist illusions, until they too ended in disillusion. The religious zeal of immigrants was a mirror image of what they themselves once had been.”
― Ian Buruma, Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance

“Tanrınator (The Sonnet)

To the christian I'm christian -
to neonazism, I'm nazarene ravager.
To the jew I'm just a jew -
to zionism, I'm thunderahava.

To the sanatani I'm advaitin -
to hindutva, I'm narasimha.
To the muslim I'm sufi fakir -
to islamism, I'm tanrınator.

To the atheist I'm rationalist,
to the militant I'm apocalypse.
To the intellectuals I'm an idiot,
to the narcissist I'm cataclysmic.

I'm a brother to every
believer and nonbeliever alike.
I'm the bridge that unites the shores,
I'm the bulldozer that obliterates divide.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Islam means working for peace and welfare,
Islamism is the ruin of synchronization.
Sanatana Dharma is advaita sanskriti,
that is, a culture of nonsectarianism,
Hindutva means mindless saffronization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“Catholics say, anglicans ain't real christians.
Jews say, christians ain't the chosen people.
Hindus say, even a muslim's shadow ruins faith.
Muslims say, every non-muslim is an infidel.

Everybody thinks they're the chosen ones,
and everybody else is living in sin.
Only the brand of the bottle changes,
not the prejudice and bigotry within.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee

“Everybody thinks they're the chosen ones,
and everybody else is living in sin.
Only the brand of the bottle changes,
not the prejudice and bigotry within.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee