Top 30 John Fugelsang Quotes (2026 Update)

1. “Only in America can you be Pro-Death Penalty, Pro-War, Pro-Unmanned Drone Bombs, Pro-Nuclear Weapons, Pro-Guns, Pro-Torture, Pro-Land Mines, AND still call yourself ‘Pro-Life.’”

— John Fugelsang

2. “Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare. You’re thinking of Jesus.”

— John Fugelsang

3. “The greatest threat to America is not foreign terrorists, its domestic morons.”

— John Fugelsang

4. “Jesus never called the poor ‘lazy,’ fought for tax cuts for the wealthiest Nazarenes or asked a leper for a copay.”

— John Fugelsang

5. “Being gay is natural. Hating gay is a lifestyle choice.”

— John Fugelsang

6. “Loving the Second Amendment while opposing the NRA is every bit as natural as loving Jesus while opposing Westboro Baptist Church.”

— John Fugelsang

7. “Gay Marriage isn’t Special Rights, it’s Equal Rights. ‘Special Rights’ are for political churches that don’t pay taxes.”

— John Fugelsang

8. “Anti-Tax fetishist Grover Norquist owns a bust of Ronald Reagan, who raised taxes 11 times.”

— John Fugelsang

9. “We live in a country where voting rights get gutted but Sharknado gets a sequel.”

— John Fugelsang

10. “My mother was an ex-nun, and my father was a Franciscan brother, so I grew up believing in Jesus the way anyone would believe in Mom’s first husband.”

— John Fugelsang

11. “People get God and religion confused. I think God is a bit too hip to join any of his unauthorized fan clubs.”

— John Fugelsang

12. “You complain and demand zero compromise – so the GOP obstructs Obama so the economy doesn’t improve – then you complain and demand even more zero compromise. Then you get to blame Obama for the slow recovery, which is sorta like John Wilkes Booth blaming Lincoln for missing the end of a play.”

— John Fugelsang

13. “I was the biggest George Harrison fanatic in the world. He was raised Catholic; my parents are both ex-clergy, so I was raised Catholic, and I admired how he used his faith.”

— John Fugelsang

14. “Impeach President Reagan retroactively for agreeing with Obama on the assault weapons ban.”

— John Fugelsang

15. “I think there is a spiritual hunger, and I think that people are really tired of getting kind of a two-dimensional take on religion in most of the media.”

— John Fugelsang

16. “If you were a freak as a kid, you’re an interesting adult.”

— John Fugelsang

17. “I enjoy growth; I enjoy having a lot of different experiences. And I don’t think I am the kind of guy who’d like to do the same thing every day for 40 years.”

— John Fugelsang

18. “Blaming Obama for Iraq violence is like blaming Daniel Craig because Octopussy sucked.”

— John Fugelsang

19. “I will kill the BackStreet Boys by beating them with the members of N-Sync.”

— John Fugelsang

20. “Stand-up led to me doing solo shows, which led to me being offered my first broadcasting job, being a VJ.”

— John Fugelsang

21. “I wasn’t any good at sports, but I could name all the presidents by the time I was six. I’ve always been very interested in politics and in religion.”

— John Fugelsang

22. “Can we please rename The Sandy Relief Bill to the Supplemental Iraq War Funding Bill so the GOP Congress can vote for it?”

— John Fugelsang

23. “Nixon was a conservative who’s way more liberal than his party can admit, and Obama’s a liberal who’s way more conservative than his party can admit.”

— John Fugelsang

24. “The problem is that people love music and they love television, but people don’t love music on TV.”

— John Fugelsang

25. “It’s a gospel of control over caring, power over humility, and judgment over mercy. They won’t fight for the words of Jesus, but they’re profoundly committed to stuff they believe he said.”

— John Fugelsang

26. “Not only are Christians supposed to prioritize following Jesus’s words above the other parts of the Bible, that’s also quite literally why this religion got its name.”

— John Fugelsang

27. “Spiritual people use religion to become better people. Fundamentalists use religion to pretend they’re better than other people.”

— John Fugelsang

28. “In focusing on what cannot be proven, many Christians fall into the trap of a Christianity that’s more about defending the supernatural than embodying the moral teachings of Jesus. It’s not the miracles driving people away from religion, it’s the Christians who don’t live by Jesus’s words about how we’re supposed to treat each other.”

— John Fugelsang

29. “But Christian nationalists are here to fight for Jesus – not listen to him.”

— John Fugelsang

30. “It’s not the miracles driving people away from religion, it’s the Christians who don’t live by Jesus’s words about how we’re supposed to treat each other.”

— John Fugelsang

31. “Trump defenders may be intrigued to know that while Jesus never once condemned abortions, immigrants, or gay people, he was seriously not a fan of adultery, and spoke out against the divorce laws of Moses because he thought it should be harder for men to dump their wives.”

— John Fugelsang

32. “The New Covenant established by Jesus marks a massive shift from the religious law and customs Jesus was raised with, to a different kind of faith-based user experience. It’s Jesus’s software update, from Law 1.0 to Love 1.0. Calling oneself “Christian” is to accept the new terms and conditions.”

— John Fugelsang

33. “And I was taught – relentlessly – that Christianity was about the things Jesus prioritized: Service to others. Forgiveness. Caring for the poor, the sick, the stranger, the prisoner. Fighting injustice with nonviolence, like Dr. King and Gandhi. Standing up for the less fortunate, like Dorothy Day and Catholic Charities. Love. Empathy. Compassion.”

— John Fugelsang

34. “The primary driver of most global conflict, oppression of women, suppression of science, persecution of gay people, and abuse of power is not religion. It’s the extreme fundamentalist wings of all the world’s religions that provide all these dramas for the rest of humanity.”

— John Fugelsang