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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.

Within the Christian tradition, fundamentalism arose in the 19th century as an effort to push back against modern' readings of the Bible that suggested everything in the text wasn't true in some literal sense.

The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.

Beyond any question, the way the American founders consistently linked faith and freedom, republicanism and religion, was not only deliberate and thoughtful, it was also surprising and anything but routine.

I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind.