Aghast Quote by Rowan Atkinson

If defamation of religion was illegal it would be a crime for me to say that the notion of transubstantiation is so ridiculous that…

— Ian O'Doherty

My opinion is that somebody certainly has the right to do cartoons that make fun of somebody else's religion. But to reprint them just…

— David Byrne

It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.

— Abigail McCarthy

In our day, you can mock religion in public and even get funds for doing it. But you can't show respect for religion in…

— Charles Colson

“One of the many problems with the concept of protecting religion from defamation is that ideas (including religious ideas) cannot be defamed—only people can…

— Dave Niose

If we ban whatever offends any group in our diverse society, we will soon have no art, no culture, no humor, no satire. Satire…

— Erica Jong

You know what offends me? Offended people. In a country with guaranteed rights to freedom of religion, its citizens are constantly trying to make…

— Brad Stine

I have been in the entertainment business some forty-three years, and I have never said anything detrimental or anything that might be construed as…

— W. C. Fields

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

— Ana Gasteyer

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs…

— Isaac Hayes

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

— Bernard Berenson

One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric…

— Stephen L. Carter