Megan Phelps-Roper Quotes

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts. Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war. We are filled with disgust.

I cannot comprehend fundamentalism. It's fundamentally wrong.

The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.

I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

Those who believe that they have absolute truth and the only moral system are destructive both to themselves and to those whom they try to convert.

I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows.

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

Islamic fundamentalism in its activist manifestation is bad news. Religious fundamentalism in general is bad news. We know about religious fundamentalism in South Africa. Calvinist fundamentalism has been an unmitigated force of benightedness in our history.

Jewish extremism and Islamic fanaticism fed each other.

To what great evils has religion been able to impel men.

The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and ... people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

Special crises compel men to wage holy wars, by the cruelest means, against those who seem to question or threaten their unsafe ideological bases.

Religion can turn holy stories into flaming swords.

Here [in Jerusalem], no mercy is shown. One hates one's fellow man to the glory of God.

Aren’t any of us worried about certain people who are fighting holy wars against certain other people who do not believe what they believe.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to us all than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism…

Men whose religion was excessively zealous split themselves into opposing factions, and once divided by a single mistake they disagreed on everything and came to be entirely at odds with one another.

Extremism is no more the monopoly of Islam than it is the monopoly of other religions, including Christianity.

Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.

Morality crusades unite military regimes and religious zealots alike.

Religious extremism. We hear about it all the time. We see it all the time. Heck, most of us are just sick of talking about it all the time.

Fundamentalists are crazy. They're the real world equivalent to the evil geniuses of our spy fiction and our superhero comics. They want to mold the world into a specific shape that they really believe in, and if you don't believe in that, if you can't relate to that, it just seems crazy.

The Fundamentalist Christians have told me that I am a slave of Satan and should have my demons expelled with an exorcism. The Fundamentalist Materialists inform me that I am a liar, charlatan, fraud and scoundrel. Aside from this minor difference, the letters are astoundingly similar. Both groups share the same crusading zeal and the same lack of humor, charity and common human decency. These intolerable cults have served to confirm me in my agnosticism by presenting further evidence to support my contention that when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.