Blasphemy Quotes - Page 2

• "Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you.

  Robert M. Price

  Mean, Choices, Atheism

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• I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.

  Mark Twain

  Happiness, Happy, God

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.182, Chartwell

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• There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy.

  Paul Rudnick

  Happiness, Joy, Atheism

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• As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions and a history of bad times and bad men.

  Thomas Paine

  Christian, Religious, Lying

  Thomas Paine (1854). “The Works of Thomas Paine: A Hero in the American Revolution. With an Account of His Life ...”, p.245

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• I am sometimes shocked by the blasphemies of those who think themselves pious.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Intelligence, Sometimes

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.73, Routledge

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• In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, I could not bear myself.

  Joanna Southcott

  Answers, Bears, Satan

  Joanna Southcott (1813). “Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801”

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• We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything to wound the conscience and moral sense of others, may indeed act immorally; but, so long as he is not guilty of being importunate, he violates no right.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Long, Doe, May

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• I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

  Rick Moody

  Order, Treasure, Should

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• It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Atheism, Citizens, Tests

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814”, p.304, Princeton University Press

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• One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

  Dan Savage

  Men, Rights, People

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• Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.

  Salman Rushdie

  God, Forgiven, Word Of God

  The Satanic Verses pt. 6 (1988)

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• There is no society that protects freedom of religion more than secular democracies, because in societies where one religion rules, different viewpoints will be labelled as heresy and blasphemy. Why? Because the society is built on religion - not freedom for all points of view.

  Flemming Rose

  Views, Democracy, Different

  Source: theundercurrent.org

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• Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that were offenses against any criteria of taste and decency, reels and reels of perversion and blasphemy that stunned my disbelieving eyes, the shocked my virginal mind, and sealed my valve.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Eye, Abortion, Mind

  John Kennedy Toole (1980). “A Confederacy of Dunces”, p.55, Dubois Publishing

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• I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

  John le Carre

  Thinking, Literature, Given

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• I am very sorry to know and hear how unreverently that most precious jewel, the Word of God, is disputed, rhymed, sung and jangled in every ale-house and tavern, contrary to the true meaning and doctrine of the same.

  King Edward VIII

  Sorry, Jewels, House

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• You’re not asleep, and you’re not dead. I’m here, and I love you. I have always loved you, and I will always love you. I was thinking of you, seeing your face in my mind, every second that I was away. When I told you that I didn’t want you, it was the very blackest kind of blasphemy.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Thinking Of You, Love You, Twilight

  "New Moon". Book by Stephenie Meyer, September 6, 2006.

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• It is blasphemy if you pray before God while you are full of anger.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Saint, Praying, Ifs

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• Racism is stupid. It’s an insult to God, arrogantly implying that God goofed-up when he chose to make us all different.

  Rick Warren

  Stupid, Racism, Different

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jul 17, 2013

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• This I know; God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin.... And therefore it is blasphemy to say, God can sin; but to say, that God can so order the world, as a sin may be necessarily caused thereby in a man, I do not see how it is any dishonor to him.

  Thomas Hobbes

  God, Men, Order

  Thomas Hobbes, John Bramhall, Vere Chappell (1999). “Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity”, p.23, Cambridge University Press

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• Censorship is the commonest social blasphemy because it is mostly concealed, built into us by indolence, self-interest and cowardice.

  John Osborne

  Fear, Self, Censorship

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• It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they are Hindus, Catholics or Muslims, a licence to be offended. It also allows people who are in dispute with you to make up false accusations of blasphemy.

  Richard Dawkins

  Law, People, Giving

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• To make sure that my blasphemy is thoroughly expressed, I hereby state my opinion that the notion of a god is a basic superstition, that there is no evidence for the existence of any god(s), that devils, demons, angels and saints are myths, that there is no life after death, heaven nor hell, that the Pope is a dangerous, bigoted, medieval dinosaur, and that the Holy Ghost is a comic-book character worthy of laughter and derision.

  James Randi

  Laughter, Book, Character

  Skeptic Magazine, Volume 3, No. 4, 1995.

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• It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word.

  King James I

  Christian, Atheism, Disputes

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• You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime.

  Dan Barker

  Accusing Me, Doubt, Atheism

  Dan Barker (1992). “Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist”, Freedom from Religion Fndtn

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• As George Bernard Shaw observed: "All great truths begin as blasphemies." Yet I have to say, the idea that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos does not seem terribly radical to me, nor does the notion that we could be receiving help from outside of our dimension.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Intelligent, Ideas, Doe

  Source: www.spiritualmediablog.com

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