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Being veterans of the struggle to push back against fundamentalist Christians, American liberals are well acquainted with the pitfalls of the neoconservative flirtation with the religious-right.
Maajid Nawaz / Political Activist
Fundamentalist
Pitfalls
Acquainted
Christians
Liberals
Veterans
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Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.
Andrew O'hagan / Novelist
Fans
Football
Fundamentalist
Passion
Zeal
Compliments
Passions
Similar
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I think the funny thing about acting for me - and I hold it in a very holy, spiritual way - not to be overly fundamentalist about it, but it's that important to me - is that it is an ancient healing art.
Melissa Leo / Actress
Art
Ancient
Fundamentalist
Healing
Holy
Spiritual
Funny Thing
Overly
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I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
Ian Mackaye / Singer
Humor
Dry
Fundamentalist
People
Reputation
Thinking
Funny Me People
Funny Humor Me
Extremely
Fellow
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I grew up in a very fundamentalist, evangelical Christian household. Both my parents were born-again - their faith infused every aspect of my childhood. I'll probably spend most of my life working through that.
Craig Thompson / Novelist
Aspect
Born Again
Evangelical
Fundamentalist
Both My Parents
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I think environmentalists do no service to their cause by taking fundamentalist stances. I am not defending corporate India's track record, but for many environmental problems, there are technological solutions.
Jairam Ramesh / Indian Politician
Environmental
Corporate
Environmental Problems
Fundamentalist
Solutions
Thinking
Track
Track Record
Defending
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What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.
Stephen Jay Gould / Paleontologist
Adaptation
Biology
Discovering
Fundamentalist
Natural Selection
Odd
Selection
Evolutionary
Mechanisms
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The overwhelming majority of Muslims in this country and overseas are peaceful, law-abiding citizens. However, a small number of Muslims are members of fundamentalist sects sworn to the destruction of the United States.
Robert Mueller /
Destruction
Fundamentalist
Peaceful
Law-Abiding
Law-Abiding Citizens
Muslims
Overseas
Sworn
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An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.
Antonio Tabucchi / Writer
Aesthetic
Doctrine
Doubt
Example
Fundamentalist
No Doubt
Perfect
Political
Religious
Admit
For Example
Imposed
Political System
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And now when we hear that Iran and Iraq plan to cooperate more closely and that a fundamentalist is coming to power in Tehran - a man about whom we cannot be sure that he is absolutely averse to terrorism - it is very worrisome.
Otto Schily /
Men
Fundamentalist
Iran
Iraq
Tehran
Terrorism
Absolutely
Averse
Closely
Cooperate
Plan
We Cannot
Whom
Worrisome
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In the late 1980s, a new revolt broke out, this time led by the fundamentalist FIS (Islamic Salvation Front). Many of its leaders were the kind of young Algerians who joined the struggle against the French occupiers in the 1950s.
Alistair Horne /
Broke
Fundamentalist
Islamic
Revolt
Salvation
Joined
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Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.
David Brin / Scientist
Science
Berlin
Berlin Wall
Cases
Fall
Fundamentalist
Islam
Science Fiction
Wall
Rise
Hand
Record
Predicted
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England is the breeding ground of fundamentalist Muslims. Its social logic is to allow all religions to preach openly. But this is illogic, because none of the other religions preach apocalyptic violence. And yet England allows it.
Wole Soyinka / Writer
Breeding
England
Fundamentalist
Logic
Social
Violence
All Religions
Allow
Religions
Ground
Muslims
None
Openly
Preach
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It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
Barney Frank / Former U.s. Representative
Effects
Fundamentalist
Harvard
Impervious
Indication
Party
Proof
Republican Party
Taken
Yale
Totally
Bush
Cite
Further
George
George Bush
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I am much more open to plural marriage than I was before, and I now support it in certain situations. I do believe it is right for some people. But our example in America today is gross abuse - I can't support it in fundamentalist compounds.
Ginnifer Goodwin / Film Actress
Abuse
America
Believe
Compounds
Fundamentalist
Gross
People
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Fundamentalist Christians, adhering to what is termed 'creation science,' loudly promote the scientific accuracy of the Bible, but they sift or reinterpret science through the tiny mesh of their ideological filter. Not much real science gets through.
Hugh Ross / Creationist
Accuracy
Bible
Creation
Fundamentalist
Ideological
Mesh
Tiny
Adhering
Christians
Filter
Loudly
Promote
Scientific
Sift
Termed
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Most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - and I am an evangelical, so I can say most of my fundamentalist brothers and sisters - are quite willing to pack women off and send them as missionaries to dangerous places where they might get killed.
Tony Campolo / Pastor
Brother
Brothers And Sisters
Fundamentalist
Might
Missionary
Brothers
Sisters
Missionaries
Pack
Send
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Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.
J. Philippe Rushton / Professor
Men
Believe
Classification
Evolution
Foolish
Fundamentalist
Human Beings
Religious
Life God Man
Life God Believe
Apply
Beings
Biological
Forms
Exempt
Image
Life Forms
Likeness
Unless
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Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous - the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong.
Pema Chodron / Nun
Fundamentalist
Ideas
Indignation
People
Pointing
Righteous
Spiritual
People Bad Sometimes
Beliefs
Effect
Finger
Identified
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The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.
Tony Blair / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
War
Cold
Cold War
Europe
Fundamentalist
Ideology
Memories
Political Ideology
Today
Each
Inflicted
Powers
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Everyone knew that Saleh and the Houthis were a marriage of convenience. He was a dictator; the Houthis are ideologues who want to impose their fundamentalist vision. Neither cared for the core values of the Arab Spring - representative, accountable governance.
Jamal Khashoggi /
Arab Spring
Convenience
Core Values
Dictator
Fundamentalist
Governance
Ideologues
Spring
Accountable
Arab
Cared
Impose
Representative
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I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie / Writer
Acceptance
Beautiful
Fundamentalist
Hair
Self Acceptance
Unbearable
Naturally
Women Beautiful World
Wearing
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When I was filming 'Prudence' in Zimbabwe, I noticed the hold fundamentalist Christianity had on sub-Saharan Africa. So I thought I'd like to make a film about religion in Africa because the prosperity gospel is big business where people are desperate, poor, and sick.
Roger Ross Williams / Television Director
Big Business
Christianity
Desperate
Fundamentalist
Prudence
Sick
Sub Saharan Africa
Zimbabwe
Africa
Gospel
Filming
Noticed
Sub-Saharan
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I became a Christian within a fundamentalist church. I saw 'A Thief in the Night' on a 16 mm. print when I was in the eighth grade, and I got the whole scare speech from our pastors. 'Do you want to be left here, left behind, for the Tribulation? If not, then come forward.'
Scott Derrickson / Director
Eighth Grade
Fundamentalist
Print
Scare
Tribulation
Grade
Pastors
Thief
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In Islamic societies, politicians can manipulate almost everything. But thus far, no fundamentalist leader has been able to convince his supporters to renounce Islam's central virtue - the principle of strict equality between human beings, regardless of sex, race, or creed.
Fatema Mernissi / Writer
Equality
Convince
Fundamentalist
Human Beings
Islam
Leader
Manipulate
Race
Renounce
Sex
Strict
Virtue
Almost Everything
Beings
Central
Creed
Politicians
Societies
Principle
Regardless
Supporters
Thus
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Like 'God's Not Dead,' the fundamentalist Christian movie that has become a popular hit, 'Transcendence' is essentially a dramatized debate. And as 'God's Not Dead' stacks the rhetorical cards for the Deity's existence, the Pfister film eventually hangs back with the Luddites.
Richard Corliss / Editor
Cards
Debate
Fundamentalist
Rhetorical
Deity
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The U.S. is friends with dictatorial regimes, then invades places like Iraq and Afghanistan, and what happens afterwards is a catastrophe. In the place of their leaders, fundamentalist movements that use the name of Islam spring up, and all that's left is terror and bloodshed.
Ayman Odeh /
Afghanistan
Bloodshed
Catastrophe
Fundamentalist
Islam
Regimes
Spring
Terror
Afterwards
Dictatorial
Movements
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I think being Jewish has been covered really well but almost nothing about being fundamentalist Protestant. For years, I've had a movie in my mind called 'Total Immersion' that looks to my life as a kid where you're immersed in this different worldview from almost everybody around you.
Wes Craven / Film Director
Movie
Covered
Fundamentalist
Looks
Worldview
Everybody
Life Mind My Life
Jewish
Almost
Almost Nothing
Total
Immersed
Protestant
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I remember going to a funeral at a very fundamentalist church, and I just had to get out of there. I went out in the parking lot and just sobbed. I think there was a sense of loss of that little boy not knowing if he was right or wrong. Everything I grew up with I had to walk away from.
Wes Craven / Film Director
Fundamentalist
Loss
Not Knowing
Parking
Parking Lot
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If you look around us, there are an awful lot of men out there, and women, but mostly men, who believe that they have got a fast-track path to Heaven, if they do the things that they believe God is telling them to do, and I don't just mean Islamic people. I mean Fundamentalist Christians.
James Purefoy / Actor
Believe
Christian
Fundamentalist
Heaven
Islamic
Path
God Men Women
Awful Lot
Christians
God Women Men
Mostly
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It could fairly be said that the U.S. is increasingly out of step with the rest of the world. As our neighbors to the south elect left-wing or even socialist governments, we are lurching further to the right. As Europe becomes less engaged to the Church, we are becoming more fundamentalist.
Graydon Carter / Journalist
Engaged
Fundamentalist
Left Wing
Socialist
Fairly
Elect
Further
Governments
Increasingly
Neighbors
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If you're going to figure something out, study ethics. You can ask What's the answer? What's Right and Wrong? What I learned is that nobody knows the answer and there is no Right and Wrong. So I'm incapable of becoming a fundamentalist because there are no absolutes, there's always a what if.
Duff Goldman / Pastry Chef
Absolutes
Answers
Becoming
Ethics
Fundamentalist
Incapable
Study
What If
Figure
Right And Wrong
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The market fundamentalist ideology that dominates much of the west has attempted to indoctrinate us with a simple myth: that we all rise or fall according to our individual efforts alone; that billionaires amass vast amounts of wealth because they are entrepreneurial, plucky, go-getting geniuses.
Owen Jones / Columnist
Entrepreneurial
Fundamentalist
Ideology
Myth
According
Attempted
Billionaires
Efforts
Geniuses
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I have for some time now been deeply troubled by the growing difficulties faced by Christian communities in various parts of the Middle East. It seems to me that we cannot ignore the fact that Christians in the Middle East are increasingly being deliberately targeted by fundamentalist Islamist militants.
Prince Charles /
Christian
East
Fundamentalist
Middle
Middle East
Seems
Christians
Communities
Difficulties
Deeply
Deliberately
Ignore
Increasingly
Parts
Targeted
Troubled
Various Parts
We Cannot
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There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.
Ehud Olmert / Former Prime Minister Of Israel
Britain
China
Country
Doubt
Extremist
France
Fundamentalist
Germany
Great Britain
Iran
Islamic
Nations
Nuclear
Possessing
Russia
Weapons
Western
Western World
Great Government World
Amongst
Government Great World
Mentioned
One Country
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I went to a fundamentalist Christian high school and went to a fundamentalist church, and they were the greatest people; there was an amazing sense of community. The problem is when the messiness of real life enters, and the inflexibility of a moral code cannot cope with the realities of moral relativism.
Scott Derrickson / Director
Church
Code
Fundamentalist
High School
Moral
Real Life
Relativism
Cope
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I was raised fundamentalist Christian, and now I'm not that. It was not an act of rebellion or anything. For me, it was about being in a line of work where I was meeting so many different people and feeling like they all had legitimate points of view that I needed to consider and occasionally these were at odds with ideas that I was raised with.
Chris Thile / Mandolinist
Christian
Different
Fundamentalist
Ideas
Needed
Odds
Raised
Rebellion
Work Me People
Act
Work Me View
Consider
Different People
Feeling
Work View Me
Legitimate
Line
Meeting
Occasionally
Points
View
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