Quotes about Fanaticism
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and
- Fr. Richard Rohr
If change and growth are not programmed into your spirituality, if there are not serious warnings about the blinding nature of fear and fanaticism, your religion will always end up worshiping the status quo and protecting your present ego position and personal advantage—as if it were God!
- Fr. Richard Rohr
Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.
- Joseph Campbell
every uncompromising ideology reduces faith to an idolatry
- Walter Brueggemann
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Kill them all in the Name of the Lord.
- Jerry Falwell
It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.
- Tony Campolo
The Communists do have a god, the Dialectic of History, which guarantees everything that they're going to do and guarantees them victory; that's why they're fanatic.
- Reinhold Niebuhr