Blasphemies: Religious Campaigns To Stifle Freedom of Speech
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What Are The Edges Of Blasphemy?
The case of the mistaken prophecies of Julie Green shows why it’s folly to base any aspect of real-world government upon the fanciful prophecies of any religion.
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ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence Bans Blasphemy
ChatGPT has been programmed not to allow blasphemy. The irony is that every religion in existence is a blasphemy against all the other religions.
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Atheist Imprisoned For Saying Death Is Real
In April 5 this year, Mubarak Bala was sentenced to 24 years in prison as a punishment for blasphemy after he asserted that death is real.
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Proposed New Zealand AntiBlasphemy Law Would Require Banning the Christian Bible
The Parliament of New Zealand is now considering a bill, 209-1, which would make it a crime to incite disharmony on the grounds of religious belief. The legislation, given the unwieldy title of “The Human Rights (Incitement on Ground of Religious Belief) Amendment Bill” has received its first reading in Parliament and is now being…
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Poland Advances Ban of Blasphemy
The leaders of the executive and legislative branches of government in Poland are currently at work on legislation that would make blasphemy a crime punishable by a sentence of two years in prison. The lower house of the Polish legislature has already passed a version of the proposed law. The Roman Catholic Church has a…
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US House Chaplain Prays To Flatten American Religious Diversity
Margaret Grun Kibben’s prayer was a Christian screed against the blasphemy of disagreement, and a demand that all Americans comply with the will of the Christian god.
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80 Countries Criminalize Blasphemy Or Apostasy Says New Report
A new report from Humanists International warns that blasphemy or apostasy is a crime in over 80 countries, and in 13 of these countries, the punishment for violating laws against insulting religion or living a non-religious life is death. “There are legal restrictions against expressing blasphemy, defaming or insulting religion or religious beliefs, or offending…
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Indonesia Makes It A Crime To Insult Christianity
These new theocratic penal codes force religious observance on a huge portion of the global population, and apply not only to Indonesian citizens, but to anyone who sets foot on Indonesian territory.
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Is Christian Nationalism Blasphemy?
The Stop Christian Nationalism web site has a message for Christian Nationalists: “Your messiah was not an American citizen and didn’t speak English.” You’d think that this would not be a controversial statement, but given the religious zealotry that’s been growing in the United States over the last several years, the essentially American character of…
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Vous N’etes Pas Charlie
“Je Suis Charlie”. So says the popular social media meme in response to the murder of a dozen people by Muslims in France who were furious about the publication of blasphemous cartoons of Mohammed by the magazine Charlie Hebdo. Let’s be frank, though. You’re not Charlie Hebdo. You’re alive. The people at Charlie Hebdo are…