Comments on: BLASPHEMY: Oonagh Young Gallery Exhibition Launch on Friday http://www.atheist.ie/2010/01/oonagh-young-gallery-exhibition/ Building a rational, ethical and secular society free from superstition and supernaturalism Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:02:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Also in the news « What Does This Rope Do? http://www.atheist.ie/2010/01/oonagh-young-gallery-exhibition/comment-page-1/#comment-4604 Also in the news « What Does This Rope Do? Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:09:19 +0000 http://www.atheist.ie/?p=416#comment-4604 [...] The Blasphemy Exhibition [...] [...] The Blasphemy Exhibition [...]

]]> By: Holytape http://www.atheist.ie/2010/01/oonagh-young-gallery-exhibition/comment-page-1/#comment-4597 Holytape Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:34:37 +0000 http://www.atheist.ie/?p=416#comment-4597 Thank you for standing up against the blasphemy laws. It will be interesting to see the response by the church. I would like to see them try to prove that the art is somehow damaging to anyone. <a href="http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=35956762" rel="nofollow">Sasquatch Jesus</a> and <a href="http://holytape-holytape.blogspot.com/2009/12/santo-nino-de-atocha-rescues-virgen-de.html" rel="nofollow">Jesus fighting a dinosaur</a>. Thank you for standing up against the blasphemy laws. It will be interesting to see the response by the church. I would like to see them try to prove that the art is somehow damaging to anyone.

Sasquatch Jesus and Jesus fighting a dinosaur.

]]> By: BK http://www.atheist.ie/2010/01/oonagh-young-gallery-exhibition/comment-page-1/#comment-4378 BK Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:41:45 +0000 http://www.atheist.ie/?p=416#comment-4378 None of that sounds blasphemous (I presume David Godbold exhibit is similar to this: http://punchthesphinx.com/announcements/david-godbold-exhibition-and-workshop-butler-gallery/ "What makes an image Blasphemous?" Well, for a start, believers must find it blasphemous. A bunch of athiests telling them that something is blasphemous doesn't make it so. The more relevant question is, is it possible to be blasphemous without offending anyone? Because that is what these examples of blasphemy (inc the 25 quotes) appear to trying to do. Really, if you want to have an exhibition of blaspheous art, put up a few cartoons of Mohammed. None of that sounds blasphemous (I presume David Godbold exhibit is similar to this:
http://punchthesphinx.com/announcements/david-godbold-exhibition-and-workshop-butler-gallery/

“What makes an image Blasphemous?”
Well, for a start, believers must find it blasphemous. A bunch of athiests telling them that something is blasphemous doesn’t make it so.
The more relevant question is, is it possible to be blasphemous without offending anyone? Because that is what these examples of blasphemy (inc the 25 quotes) appear to trying to do.

Really, if you want to have an exhibition of blaspheous art, put up a few cartoons of Mohammed.

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