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Blasphemy is a Victimless Crime.

— Richard Dawkins

Blasphemy laws are...an outdated Orwellian thought-policing species of law that force people into psychological submission by making it a crime to question, criticise and…

— John Michael Sherlock

... on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which millions of…

— Katha Pollitt

“Every culture has blasphemy laws. They are not always called that, but no society allows citizens to rail against the reigning deity. In our…

— Douglas Wilson

The writers of the French enlightenment had deliberately used blasphemy as a weapon, refusing to accept the power of the Church to set limiting…

— Salman Rushdie

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Dan Barker

Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.

— Ricky Gervais

“In England, under the Blasphemy Laws, it is illegal to express disbelief in the Christian religion, though in practice the law is not set…

— Bertrand Russell

This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy…

— Annie Besant

“The charge of blasphemy is loaded. The point is to pack a wallop behind the charge that in our worship services God simply doesn't…

— John Piper

All laws for the purpose of making man worship God, are born of the same spirit that kindled the fires of the auto da…

— Robert Green Ingersoll