(7 quotes found)
“Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing - with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for the second and third place.”
Robert A. Heinlein
“You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.”
Dan Barker
“One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.”
Dan Savage
“It's an awesome district and to have busted it up would have been almost blasphemy.”
Scott Phillips
“And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.”
Bible
“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Historically, blasphemy has always been identified with criticizing, denigrating, or marginalizing the sacred, and in Jewish and Christian tradition it's connected with profaning the name of God, or persons such as Jesus or the Holy Spirit, or even teaching connected with the God of the Bible. It's the kind of categorical expression for vast disrespect of the most sacred and holy things in our faith.”
Bob Hodgson
