Blasphemy

[Barry]

Asia Bibi was a case in point. However it has also been an excuse to shoot an office full of people in the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris in January 2015.

All over a few so called "blasphemous" cartoons of a bloke with a bomb on his head.

I thought we were supposed to love our neighbours, not kill them.

There's no heresy or blasphemy in loving your neighbour.

[Ciaphas]

The common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel were formally abolished in England and Wales in 2008. Equivalent laws remain in Scotland and Northern Ireland, and rules elsewhere — is this fair, or is it just another case of overzealous political correctness..?

It's a silly law used by the religious to intimidate, and sometimes harm, others who disagree with them. They also use it to suppress legitimate criticism, something which religious organisations and individual frequently deserves in spades.



Remember that woman who faced the death sentence in Pakistan for alledgedly commiting blasphemy? Obviously not in the UK but highlights the insanity of these laws.



https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46040515">https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46040515

[Baron von Lotsov]

The sooner we can get rid of these arcane laws the better.

Ah yes, better for the profits of TV firms spewing out filth.



I guess all the seedy establishments in Soho would also be relieved by the removal of laws to regulate indecency.

[Nalaar]

The sooner we can get rid of these arcane laws the better. They're practically ignored as it is already, for good reason.

[Baron von Lotsov]

Get it into perspective. When these laws are lifted it means the ugly minds of TV producers will devise the most shocking and vile images their fiendish minds can muster to up the ratings in the lower depths of hell to try and lower it even more in a competition to the bottom of the sewer. This is the sort of thing they will most be tempted to do at Christmas.



So blessed are the Scottish and the Northern Irish that they have at least some defence against it. You see laws were always made for a reason, like the law which prevented lawyers from advertising, or for that matter, betting shops.



Anyhow, put it this way, if the satanic TV producers manage to destroy the church then what do they offer. I mean is blood and guts enjoyable? Fancy a school massacre to liven your village up with?

[johnofgwent]

Well really never understood blasphemy or people getting so upset on a deity's behalf,if we assume for arguments sake god exists and is all powerful then those who blaspheme are stuffed in the next life aren't they?

It depends on whether you subscribe to the Lutheran Protestant dogma that every man has the right to seek his own personal salvation or instead adhere to the Roman Catholic dogma that no man can come to that state except that he is led by the Priest.



To preach the Lutheran doctrine was heresy in the eyes of the Catholic, but of course in the 1838 amendment such blasphemers were of course free to blaspheme against the pope ...

[johnofgwent]

The common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel were formally abolished in England and Wales in 2008. Equivalent laws remain in Scotland and Northern Ireland, and rules elsewhere — is this fair, or is it just another case of overzealous political correctness..?

It was nothing more than kow-towing to the islamics upon whom labour came more and more to rely for their vote



Whilst Blasphemy had been considered an unforgiveable sin since the dawn of the gospels, punishment was restricted to excommunication until a bunch of 14th (or 15th maybe) century bishops used underhand means reminiscent of Bercow and the earlier back passage tactics used by Stonewall to get gay rights enshrined in law despite little public interest or appetite, to get statute law in place. From 1838 to 2008 that stature law applied only to heresy spoken against the doctrine of the church of England. Jews Moslems and anyone else could rock off.

[cromwell]

The common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel were formally abolished in England and Wales in 2008. Equivalent laws remain in Scotland and Northern Ireland, and rules elsewhere — is this fair, or is it just another case of overzealous political correctness..?

Well really never understood blasphemy or people getting so upset on a deity's behalf,if we assume for arguments sake god exists and is all powerful then those who blaspheme are stuffed in the next life aren't they?

[patman post]

The common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel were formally abolished in England and Wales in 2008. Equivalent laws remain in Scotland and Northern Ireland, and rules elsewhere — is this fair, or is it just another case of overzealous political correctness..?