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Jesus Is Watching You
Why, when the Bill of Rights promises Americans protection from unreasonable search and seizure without a search warrant, are so many Americans meekly accepting the widespread surveillance of their most private online interactions and cell phone calls by the National Security Agency? Could it have something to do with their Christian upbringing? Christian churches across…
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Journalist To Be Killed By Mauritania For Blasphemy
The country of Mauritania is preparing to kill a man for the crime of blasphemy. The victim of the nation’s religious laws, a journalist named Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mohamed, had written an article decrying an oppressive social system that has created a permanent underclass. In the course of his article, he questioned the wisdom of…
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Myanmar Buddhists Deserve Worldwide Mocking For Their Tirade Against Blasphemy
In the country of Myanmar, the government has made it a crime to offend anyone’s religious beliefs. Apparently, it’s just fine to insult people’s love of freedom. It seems that the Burmese government has no problem with the violation of people’s freedom of speech, but say anything that anyone finds remotely controversial about religion, and…
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Blasphemous Video Shows Jesus Singing Himself A Christmas Carol
At this time of year, growing numbers of Americans are desperately seeking refuge from the relentless stream of Christmas carols that are blasted from loudspeakers in all manner of public places. The more we listen to the lyrics of these carols, the more we understand how foreign the culture was from which they were derived.…
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Against Intimidation = For Blasphemy
Professor Heiner Bielefeldt, a Catholic, had this testimony to offer in regard to the attempt by Irish conservatives to preserve and extend their country’s prohibition of blasphemy: “There is a growing consensus within the human rights community that we have to move away from anti-blasphemy laws which, as countless examples demonstrate, generally have intimidating effects…
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The Blasphemer’s Creed
The writer at Holy Blasphemy proposes a new kind of religion – one that is built upon a foundation of blasphemy, rather than a rejection of blasphemy. The site asserts that “blasphemy is a profoundly moral act”. In support of this vision, Holy Blasphemy offers a Blasphemer’s Creed: “1. I believe in each individual’s right…
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Laws Against Blasphemy Defend A Religion Of Locked Lips
“How has the church in every age, when in authority, defended itself? Always by a statute against blasphemy, against argument, against free speech. And there never was such a statute that did not stain the book that it was in and that did not certify to the savagery of the men who passed it. Never.…
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The 12 Days Of Blasphemy
Why offer one blasphemy at a time, when the Christmas carols come on in a constant, and often overlapping onslaught? This satire of the 12 Days Of Christmas offers the 12 Blasphemies of Christmas: On the 12th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me Jesus soaked in pee, nuns having sex, Krishna drinking…
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Blasphemy Laws Kill The Rainbow Connection
Anti-blasphemy laws don’t just kill new ideas. They kill dreams. Killing dreams is explicitly what the anti-blasphemy laws of the Holy Bible are intended to do. The book of Deuteronomy, chapter 13, commands: “If a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, appears among you and announces to you a miraculous sign or wonder, and if…
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An Angel Shooting Up Higher Into Heaven
One of the most absurd claims of Christianity is that their religion is so awesome that all we should ever want is to simply have the joy of knowing how good and true Christianity is. The Christian ideal for the afterlife is that we all will be allowed the privilege of singing praise to the…