Published by Atheist Ireland on 1 January 2010
1. Jesus Christ, when asked if he was the son of God, in Matthew 26:64: “Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.” According to the Christian Bible, the Jewish chief priests and elders and council deemed this statement by Jesus to be blasphemous, and they sentenced Jesus to death for saying it.
2. Jesus Christ, talking to Jews about their God, in John 8:44: “Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.” This is one of several chapters in the Christian Bible that can give a scriptural foundation to Christian anti-Semitism. The first part of John 8, the story of “whoever is without sin cast the first stone”, was not in the original version, but was added centuries later. The original John 8 is a debate between Jesus and some Jews. In brief, Jesus calls the Jews who disbelieve him sons of the Devil, the Jews try to stone him, and Jesus runs away and hides.
3. Muhammad, quoted in Hadith of Bukhari, Vol 1 Book 8 Hadith 427: “May Allah curse the Jews and Christians for they built the places of worship at the graves of their prophets.” This quote is attributed to Muhammad on his death-bed as a warning to Muslims not to copy this practice of the Jews and Christians. It is one of several passages in the Koran and in Hadith that can give a scriptural foundation to Islamic anti-Semitism, including the assertion in Sura 5:60 that Allah cursed Jews and turned some of them into apes and swine.
4. Mark Twain, describing the Christian Bible in Letters from the Earth, 1909: “Also it has another name – The Word of God. For the Christian thinks every word of it was dictated by God. It is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies… But you notice that when the Lord God of Heaven and Earth, adored Father of Man, goes to war, there is no limit. He is totally without mercy — he, who is called the Fountain of Mercy. He slays, slays, slays! All the men, all the beasts, all the boys, all the babies; also all the women and all the girls, except those that have not been deflowered. He makes no distinction between innocent and guilty… What the insane Father required was blood and misery; he was indifferent as to who furnished it.” Twain’s book was published posthumously in 1939. His daughter, Clara Clemens, at first objected to it being published, but later changed her mind in 1960 when she believed that public opinion had grown more tolerant of the expression of such ideas. That was half a century before Fianna Fail and the Green Party imposed a new blasphemy law on the people of Ireland.
5. Tom Lehrer, The Vatican Rag, 1963: “Get in line in that processional, step into that small confessional. There, the guy who’s got religion’ll tell you if your sin’s original. If it is, try playing it safer, drink the wine and chew the wafer. Two, four, six, eight, time to transubstantiate!”
6. Randy Newman, God’s Song, 1972: “And the Lord said: I burn down your cities – how blind you must be. I take from you your children, and you say how blessed are we. You all must be crazy to put your faith in me. That’s why I love mankind.”
7. James Kirkup, The Love That Dares to Speak its Name, 1976: “While they prepared the tomb I kept guard over him. His mother and the Magdalen had gone to fetch clean linen to shroud his nakedness. I was alone with him… I laid my lips around the tip of that great cock, the instrument of our salvation, our eternal joy. The shaft, still throbbed, anointed with death’s final ejaculation.” This extract is from a poem that led to the last successful blasphemy prosecution in Britain, when Denis Lemon was given a suspended prison sentence after he published it in the now-defunct magazine Gay News. In 2002, a public reading of the poem, on the steps of St. Martin-in-the-Fields church in Trafalgar Square, failed to lead to any prosecution. In 2008, the British Parliament abolished the common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel.
8. Matthias, son of Deuteronomy of Gath, in Monty Python’s Life of Brian, 1979: “Look, I had a lovely supper, and all I said to my wife was that piece of halibut was good enough for Jehovah.”
9. Rev Ian Paisley MEP to the Pope in the European Parliament, 1988: “I denounce you as the Antichrist.” Paisley’s website describes the Antichrist as being “a liar, the true son of the father of lies, the original liar from the beginning… he will imitate Christ, a diabolical imitation, Satan transformed into an angel of light, which will deceive the world.”
10. Conor Cruise O’Brien, 1989: “In the last century the Arab thinker Jamal al-Afghani wrote: ‘Every Muslim is sick and his only remedy is in the Koran.’ Unfortunately the sickness gets worse the more the remedy is taken.”
11. Frank Zappa, 1989: “If you want to get together in any exclusive situation and have people love you, fine – but to hang all this desperate sociology on the idea of The Cloud-Guy who has The Big Book, who knows if you’ve been bad or good – and cares about any of it – to hang it all on that, folks, is the chimpanzee part of the brain working.”
12. Salman Rushdie, 1990: “The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – uncertainty, progress, change – into crimes.” In 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran issued a fatwa ordering Muslims to kill Rushdie because of blasphemous passages in Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses.
13. Bjork, 1995: “I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one it would be Buddhism. It seems more livable, closer to men… I’ve been reading about reincarnation, and the Buddhists say we come back as animals and they refer to them as lesser beings. Well, animals aren’t lesser beings, they’re just like us. So I say fuck the Buddhists.”
14. Amanda Donohoe on her role in the Ken Russell movie Lair of the White Worm, 1995: “Spitting on Christ was a great deal of fun. I can’t embrace a male god who has persecuted female sexuality throughout the ages, and that persecution still goes on today all over the world.”
15. George Carlin, 1999: “Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ’til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He’s all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can’t handle money! Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more. Now, talk about a good bullshit story. Holy Shit!”
16. Paul Woodfull as Ding Dong Denny O’Reilly, The Ballad of Jaysus Christ, 2000: “He said me ma’s a virgin and sure no one disagreed, Cause they knew a lad who walks on water’s handy with his feet… Jaysus oh Jaysus, as cool as bleedin’ ice, With all the scrubbers in Israel he could not be enticed, Jaysus oh Jaysus, it’s funny you never rode, Cause it’s you I do be shoutin’ for each time I shoot me load.”
17. Jesus Christ, in Jerry Springer The Opera, 2003: “Actually, I’m a bit gay.” In 2005, the Christian Institute tried to bring a prosecution against the BBC for screening Jerry Springer the Opera, but the UK courts refused to issue a summons.
18. Tim Minchin, Ten-foot Cock and a Few Hundred Virgins, 2005: “So you’re gonna live in paradise, With a ten-foot cock and a few hundred virgins, So you’re gonna sacrifice your life, For a shot at the greener grass, And when the Lord comes down with his shiny rod of judgment, He’s gonna kick my heathen ass.”
19. Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion, 2006: “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.” In 2007 Turkish publisher Erol Karaaslan was charged with the crime of insulting believers for publishing a Turkish translation of The God Delusion. He was acquitted in 2008, but another charge was brought in 2009. Karaaslan told the court that “it is a right to criticise religions and beliefs as part of the freedom of thought and expression.”
20. Pope Benedict XVI quoting a 14th century Byzantine emperor, 2006: “Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.” This statement has already led to both outrage and condemnation of the outrage. The Organisation of the Islamic Conference, the world’s largest Muslim body, said it was a “character assassination of the prophet Muhammad”. The Malaysian Prime Minister said that “the Pope must not take lightly the spread of outrage that has been created.” Pakistan’s foreign Ministry spokesperson said that “anyone who describes Islam as a religion as intolerant encourages violence”. The European Commission said that “reactions which are disproportionate and which are tantamount to rejecting freedom of speech are unacceptable.”
21. Christopher Hitchens in God is not Great, 2007: “There is some question as to whether Islam is a separate religion at all… Islam when examined is not much more than a rather obvious and ill-arranged set of plagiarisms, helping itself from earlier books and traditions as occasion appeared to require… It makes immense claims for itself, invokes prostrate submission or ‘surrender’ as a maxim to its adherents, and demands deference and respect from nonbelievers into the bargain. There is nothing—absolutely nothing—in its teachings that can even begin to justify such arrogance and presumption.”
22. PZ Myers, on his desecration of a Roman Catholic communion host, 2008: “You would not believe how many people are writing to me, insisting that these horrible little crackers (they look like flattened bits of styrofoam) are literally pieces of their god, and that this omnipotent being who created the universe can actually be seriously harmed by some third-rate liberal intellectual at a third-rate university… However, inspired by an old woodcut of Jews stabbing the host, I thought of a simple, quick thing to do: I pierced it with a rusty nail (I hope Jesus’s tetanus shots are up to date). And then I simply threw it in the trash, followed by the classic, decorative items of trash cans everywhere, old coffeegrounds and a banana peel.”
23. Ian O’Doherty, 2009: “(If defamation of religion was illegal) it would be a crime for me to say that the notion of transubstantiation is so ridiculous that even a small child should be able to see the insanity and utter physical impossibility of a piece of bread and some wine somehow taking on corporeal form. It would be a crime for me to say that Islam is a backward desert superstition that has no place in modern, enlightened Europe and it would be a crime to point out that Jewish settlers in Israel who believe they have a God given right to take the land are, frankly, mad. All the above assertions will, no doubt, offend someone or other.”
24. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, 2009: “Whether a person is atheist or any other, there is in fact in my view something not totally human if they leave out the transcendent… we call it God… I think that if you leave that out you are not fully human.” Because atheism is not a religion, the Irish blasphemy law does not protect atheists from abusive and insulting statements about their fundamental beliefs. While atheists are not seeking such protection, we include the statement here to point out that it is discriminatory that this law does not hold all citizens equal.
25. Dermot Ahern, Irish Minister for Justice, introducing his blasphemy law at an Oireachtas Justice Committee meeting, 2009, and referring to comments made about him personally: “They are blasphemous.” Deputy Pat Rabbitte replied: “Given the Minister’s self-image, it could very well be that we are blaspheming,” and Minister Ahern replied: “Deputy Rabbitte says that I am close to the baby Jesus, I am so pure.” So here we have an Irish Justice Minister joking about himself being blasphemed, at a parliamentary Justice Committee discussing his own blasphemy law, that could make his own jokes illegal.
Finally, as a bonus, Micheal Martin, Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, opposing attempts by Islamic States to make defamation of religion a crime at UN level, 2009: “We believe that the concept of defamation of religion is not consistent with the promotion and protection of human rights. It can be used to justify arbitrary limitations on, or the denial of, freedom of expression. Indeed, Ireland considers that freedom of expression is a key and inherent element in the manifestation of freedom of thought and conscience and as such is complementary to freedom of religion or belief.” Just months after Minister Martin made this comment, his colleague Dermot Ahern introduced Ireland’s new blasphemy law.
219 Comments
Go Atheists!!!!
Don’t let Ahern fool you.
Perhaps your politicians ought to read “Inherit the Wind”. I would not consider myself an Atheist but I do support a person’s right to think for themself
Good luck. Well done for speaking up.
thats the stuff! religion will be the next outdated tradition to go, i just hope materialism doesn’t replace it. i’m thinking understanding and love might do..
Excellently done. Christianity for the first 300+ years of its existence was never about coercion. If the Christians in Ireland can’t remember that, thank you for keeping them accountable. And I say this as an American pastor.
Refreshing and honest. It is time to put the superstitions and ghost stories of the middle ages to rest. We live in the 21st century where explanations are rational rather than supernatural. Religion is causing violence, conflict, hatred, death, war, misery and moral confusion throughout the world.
Thank you Atheist Ireland
Silencing an opinion closes the mind.
Refreshing and honest. It is time to put the superstitions and ghost stories of the middle ages to rest. We live in the 21st century where explanations are rational rather than supernatural. Religion is causing violence, conflict, hatred, war, misery and moral confusion throughout the world. For the sake of peace and human progress religions and gods have got to go.
At least you can have an organization called “Athiest Ireland”. Here in teh US, we are so backward, there will be millions hyperventilating if we have an organization call “Athiest America”.
Here’s the masses are braiwashed into a manic frenzy where they firmly believe that decency (or ethics) cannot be man’s nature – unless mandated by religion (and threatened with horrible consequences). Athiests are treated like sub-human freiks.
Dont believe it? Just watch US politicians tripping over each other stating who has more ‘faith’ than the other.
American Athiest
When 99942 Apophis comes it won’t make a difference what we think.
Sorry for two posts folks – I hit the submit button before I could proof-read.
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At least you can have an organization called “Atheist Ireland”. Here in the US, we are so backward, there will be millions hyperventilating if we do what you are doing.
Here the masses are brainwashed into a manic frenzy where they firmly believe that decency (or ethics) cannot be man’s nature – unless they are mandated by a religion (and threatened with horrible consequences).
Atheists are treated like sub-human freaks.
Don’t believe it? Just watch US politicians tripping over each other stating who has more ‘faith’ than the other.
American Atheist
Keep opposing this fascist legislation whatever you do, and keep the rest of the world informed about any consequences that occur as a result of this publication!
Just and Atheist from Denmark, hoping Ireland will come to its senses and not mandate respect for the thing that has torn it apart.
Seeking humanism by provocation… you’re sick!
Here, here! (Or perhaps in reaction to the listing here, I should perhaps say either “Hell yes!” or “Amen!”?)
Anyway, I’ll be sure to say something “blasphemous” the next time I visit my collaborators in Ireland. (I usually manage to do that without trying anyway.)
dear atheists
sorry to say but you’re all a bit fucked up
but i love you anyway
Thank you for defending freedom of speech! This is tremendously important work you are doing.
Whatever you are thinking, just think first?
Proverbs 15
1 A gentle answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger.
2 The tongue of the wise commends knowledge,
but the mouth of the fool gushes folly.
3 The eyes of the LORD are everywhere,
keeping watch on the wicked and the good.
4 The tongue that brings healing is a tree of life,
but a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit.
5 A fool spurns his father’s discipline,
but whoever heeds correction shows prudence.
6 The house of the righteous contains great treasure,
but the income of the wicked brings them trouble.
7 The lips of the wise spread knowledge;
not so the hearts of fools.
8 The LORD detests the sacrifice of the wicked,
but the prayer of the upright pleases him.
9 The LORD detests the way of the wicked
but he loves those who pursue righteousness.
10 Stern discipline awaits him who leaves the path;
he who hates correction will die.
11 Death and Destruction [a] lie open before the LORD—
how much more the hearts of men!
12 A mocker resents correction;
he will not consult the wise.
13 A happy heart makes the face cheerful,
but heartache crushes the spirit.
14 The discerning heart seeks knowledge,
but the mouth of a fool feeds on folly.
15 All the days of the oppressed are wretched,
but the cheerful heart has a continual feast.
16 Better a little with the fear of the LORD
than great wealth with turmoil.
17 Better a meal of vegetables where there is love
than a fattened calf with hatred.
18 A hot-tempered man stirs up dissension,
but a patient man calms a quarrel.
19 The way of the sluggard is blocked with thorns,
but the path of the upright is a highway.
20 A wise son brings joy to his father,
but a foolish man despises his mother.
21 Folly delights a man who lacks judgment,
but a man of understanding keeps a straight course.
22 Plans fail for lack of counsel,
but with many advisers they succeed.
23 A man finds joy in giving an apt reply—
and how good is a timely word!
24 The path of life leads upward for the wise
to keep him from going down to the grave. [b]
25 The LORD tears down the proud man’s house
but he keeps the widow’s boundaries intact.
26 The LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked,
but those of the pure are pleasing to him.
27 A greedy man brings trouble to his family,
but he who hates bribes will live.
28 The heart of the righteous weighs its answers,
but the mouth of the wicked gushes evil.
29 The LORD is far from the wicked
but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
30 A cheerful look brings joy to the heart,
and good news gives health to the bones.
31 He who listens to a life-giving rebuke
will be at home among the wise.
32 He who ignores discipline despises himself,
but whoever heeds correction gains understanding.
33 The fear of the LORD teaches a man wisdom, [c]
and humility comes before honor.
It is frightening to believe that a modern, democratic country like Ireland could have such draconian and archaic laws. As always, it seems freedom of speech and equality under the law must be championed by the evil atheists. Good luck.
Atheists imposing their views on everyone else! Who would have thought …..
Number 23 is sheer brilliance.
You guys are wonderful! Keep up the good work!
Just remember there is a HUGE difference between God and Religion.
Man has perverted the name of God by using religion as an excuse to do horrible things.
I hope there is a God and an afterlife but I know I can’t prove it. And science can’t disprove it either. For all we know God used the processes we have discovered in science to create everything we see.
Don’t let religion hurt your relationship with God.
please find life soon in outherspace!!!!!
or will they adapt?!AAAaaaaahh!!
If god were alive today, he’d be an atheist.
- Kurt Vonnegut
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the gospels in praise of intelligence.
- Bertrand Russell
Fingers crossed for your success in repealing this utterly ridiculous, antiquated, plain old stupid law!
sorry i could not control myself,i am a bit afraid of religion.
Wow! I can’t believe how Big Brother Ireland has become!
Either that, or the powers that be are scared some crazy Muslim is going to go blowing things up and causing problems as usual, so they’ve decided to try and appease the religious extremists… how SAD and PATHETIC!!
Despite all the problems here in the USA, at least we still have our freedom of speech! Ireland, you should NOT stand for this law which pushes your democratic country back hundreds of years!! Before you know it, they’ll tell you what you can read, what you can watch, who you can talk to… TERRIBLE!!!
Keep up the good work. This is too important an issue to ignore.
What were the Irish lawmakers drinking when they came up with this one? I’m sure it won’t be taken too seriously. But just thank your lucky charms you’re not the Islamic Republic of Ireland…yet.
Good on you. All right thinking people, whether of a religious bent or not, must oppose this blatant attempt to pander to the morally bankrupt state religious leaders and to the worst of their outdated, unwanted and dangerous ideas.
Keep up the pressure.
Can this law be legally challenged in the Irish courts?
It is appalling that Ireland is willfully reentering the Dark Ages with the suppression of speech. Shame on the church and shame on the secular authorities that hopped into bed with the theocrats.
Shalom.
Way to go -Standing up to unjust laws is hard, but necessary. If you end up having to pay the fine under the new law be sure to put up an appeal here. I’m sure your fellow humanists will pony up.
How can Eire expect to be taken seriously as a modern nation when they allow their politicians to create laws to ban criticism of superstition. And this after all the revelations that suggest most priests really do want to ‘protect’ children.
It is true that evil does exist in this world and it comes wearing religious garments and quoting self contradictory scriptural dogma. Every person who uses religion rather than reason as their moral compass ultimately bears responsibility for acts like suicide bombers. For each person who condones religious delusion provides a rung on the ladder of acceptance which eventually leads to a viloent act carried out in the name of their particular imaginary friend.
You know the only answer my secular friends is to vote for the non religious candidate regardless of whatever their other views may be and let it be known publically this is your intention. We have come forward too far to slip back into the darkness.
Emperor Constantine and his Bishops, have an awful lot to answer for, for changing the original tenets of Christianity, to suit their own needs!
My fellow US American is not kidding about the persecution of Atheist in the States. It is impossible to get elected to any high office as an Atheist. Very few people ‘come out’ as Atheist. It is easier to be a public homosexual in the US than an atheist. (Nothing wrong with either- just saying.) Were I to come out to my family and in laws I would never hear then end of it and I would be partially shunned. People who don’t believe are very quiet and often go to church because to not go to church in much of the US is viewed suspiciously. Oddly enough, the leadership of the small church I used to go to are very supportive. ( I kind of came out, I just couldn’t stand it anymore) People who actually try to follow the idealized versions of Christ. More rare then Atheist in the USA.
Perhaps we should register as a religion. We wouldn’t have to pay taxes.
One thing’s for sure: Bjork is as mentally challenged as her contorted groanings suggest.
Support from Holland against these stupid laws!
De regering en de kerk proberen het bestaan van god door middel van een wet aan te tonen.
Those who do not beleive in god and say so, are criminals. Back to the year 1510.
A cautionary note:
I have no concerns with the expression of any religious views, but there are some I decline to listen to because of the way they go about it.
I have no problem with Richard Dawkins expressing his opinion on theism(and I’m sure that he is more intelligent than I am), but I pay him no attention because of his attitude that religion is intellectually contemptible and that those with whom he disagrees deserve no respect.
If your numbers are great enough, try to inundate the courts by having everyone say something blasphemous every single day, and then appeal the decision in court.
Having thousands of new court cases every day might make the lawmakers wake up.
What religion are they using to determine blasphemy? Catholic, Protestant, Wicca , Islam, Buddhist, pagan, ????? Which religion is the one you can’t insult? Does that mean all other religions are not valid? What kind of slippery slope do the Irish courts want to climb?
I’m not an atheist but I do believe words that are coming out of a living man’s mouth should be protected more than that of a dead man’s. Thoughts are not criminal. Come on Ireland, where’d your heart go?
interesting… without declaring christianity to be the one and only religion, this new law will open the way for millions to be made by suing catholics for denying the existence of allah, xenu and all the rest of them.
blasphemy against which god?
For people who don’t believe in religion, you talk about it a lot!
Isn’t there a irony in the fact that you guys post and know more about the bible than those who support it.
Rock on, I say…but if you don’t like something, just leave it, live your own life and forget about it.
If you want true enlightenment, read Atheist Ireland’s anti-religious quotations. If religion could rule the world as well as the thinking of all its inhabitants, it would. And that’s scary.
Thanks for this, the world is starting to drown in religion, when we should be getting more enlightened. Please keep up the good work.
As each and every religion blasphemes every other religion by claiming to be the one “true” religion, is not this law unenforceable without banning all religion?
It’s humanity itself that is the main problem, not any religion or law we happened to inflict on ourselves. We are not a well species and religion is only one symptom, one of the milder ones at that, like a slight facial tic. We’re deluding ourselves to point at random opinions like religion and call it our most pressing problem. We’re all collectively insane with or without religion, any type of group ideology or philosophy.
More support for you from the US. This law is utterly archaic and sorry, goes against all intellectual instinct. Why is there this need to hold “some” things sacred? Next will the Irish be disallowed to insult people they consider ugly or unintelligent? How about a law against saying something insulting about a politician? Where does it end? The essence of freedom is being allowed to insult whomever and whatever you like!
To all those who confuse all of this as an anti-christian tirade or anti-theistic drive, you are sorely mistaken. This is about freedom of speech and the attempts to, in certain cases, suppress debate. Moreover the new laws are open to subjective interpretation and only exist to bring other religions into equity with Catholicism in Ireland (this last element being a good thing). The essential problem is that by doing so we continue the tradition of religion being enshrined in our constitution and not being a privately held belief open to scrutiny.
Kudos to you for attempting to fight this ridiculous law! I hope you get it overturned!
Unbloodybelievable! … The proposed blasphemy laws clearly shows what wasted spaces religious fundamentalist fanatical politicians really are (not limited to Ireland).
It almost makes me wish there is a supreme being so that he/she could zap them all to smithereens.
If this law gets through I will need to change my take on all those deleterious Irish jokes….unless the proposed blasphemy law is a mammoth joke on the rest of us
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[...] You can read the list of 25 quotations on the Atheist Ireland website. [...]
[...] Blasphemy’s greatest hits, from Jesus to Frank Zappa: 25 Blasphemous Quotations. [...]
[...] the second article, Irish atheists published on their website 25 quotations by Bjork, Mark Twain, Salman Rushdie and others that disparaged religion in an attempt to challenge [...]
[...] Irlanda a sfidat o noua lege a blasfemiei prin publicarea unei serii de texte anti-religioase pe site-ul sau. Citatele includ cuvintele unor scriitori cum ar fi Mark Twain si Salman Rushdie dar si pasaje [...]
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[...] di una nuova, controversa, legge contro la blasfemia pubblicando provocatoriamente sul proprio sito internet 25 citazioni ritenute blasfeme. La nuova legge, entrata in vigore il primo gennaio, rende la blasfemia una offesa punibile con una [...]
[...] Team Atheist Ireland! They make me proud of my forebears: http://www.atheist.ie/2010/01/25-blasphemous-quotations/ [...]
[...] are the quotes that Atheist Ireland has posted: 1. Jesus Christ, when asked if he was the son of God, in Matthew [...]
[...] Islam4UK banned by British government Ireland bans blashphemy — read those blasphemous quotations [...]
[...] When I saw this I thought of this. [...]
[...] opposing the legislation which garnered worldwide attention. They posted 25 written or and uttered quotations which have been categorised as blasphemous under various laws, attributed to figures including Jesus Christ, Prophet Muhammad, Pope Benedict [...]
[...] opposing the legislation which garnered worldwide attention. They posted 25 written or and uttered quotations which have been categorised as blasphemous under various laws, attributed to figures including Jesus Christ, Prophet Muhammad, Pope Benedict [...]
[...] Posted on Julio 30, 2010 by chimango Una de las 25 frases blasfemas puestas en el sitio Atheist Ireland como protesta al mamarracho de modificación propuesto para su constitución, donde quieren [...]