Blasphemy Quotes

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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury… — David Attenborough
Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy… — Annie Besant
This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy -… — Annie Besant
Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and show that they are man… — Christopher Hitchens
There are also people who say it's God's curse on me that I should have it near my throat because that was the organ of… — Christopher Hitchens
The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies, as if it required any… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
He had never seen a woman doctor before, and his whole conservative soul rose up in revolt at the idea. He could not recall any… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have arisen to the height you… — Thomas Jefferson
Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He… — Mark Twain
Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which… — Martin Luther
I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad… — Arthur C. Clarke
You keep accusing me of blasphemy all of the time, but I cannot be convicted of a victimless crime. — Dan Barker
Blasphemy is what an old dogma screams at a new truth. — Robert Green Ingersoll
... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable blasphemy and all the their… — Martin Luther
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy. — Paul Rudnick
Blasphemy laws are...an outdated Orwellian thought-policing species of law that force people into psychological submission by making it a crime to question, criticise and exercise… — John Michael Sherlock
Remember that in ascending to the Father You could not leave us orphans; And in making yourself a prisoner on earth You knew to veil… — Therese of Lisieux
In Europe, where climate change absolutism is at its strongest, the quasi-religion of greenery in general and the climate change issue in particular have filled… — Nigel Lawson
Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God. — Salman Rushdie

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