Quotes About Blasphemy

One problem with Yahweh, as they used to say in the old Christian Gnostic texts, is that he forgot he was a metaphor. He thought he was a fact. And when he said, "I am God," a voice was heard to say, "You are mistaken, Samael." "Samael" means "blind god": blind to the infinite Light of which he is a local historical manifestation. This is known as the blasphemy of Jehovah—that he thought he was God.

Is that not blasphemy? Defying the will of the Covenant?' 'No,' said the captain. 'It was a tactical retreat in the face of overwhelming boredom.

Ksi?dz (wstrzymuje) Co to ma znaczy??...szalony! czy mo?na? Odbierzcie mu ?elazo, rozdejmijcie pi??cie. Jeste? ty chrze?cijanin? taka my?l bezbo?na! Znasz ty Ewangelij?? Pustelnik A znasz ty nieszcz??cie?

The demonstration must be against learning—science. But not every science will do. The attack must have all the shocking senselessness of gratuitous blasphemy. Since bombs are your means of expression, it would be really telling if one could throw a bomb into pure mathematics. But that is impossible… What do you think of having a go at astronomy?

When Stephen declares that he sees the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God, he is stoned for blasphemy because, in the view of these Jews, no one has the right to be at the side of God's heavenly presence.

I even made poor Louis take me on Crusade. How's that for blasphemy? I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn... but the troops were dazzled.

The great ships hung motionless in the sky, over every nation on Earth. Motionless they hung, huge, heavy, steady in the sky, a blasphemy against nature. Many people went straight into shock as their minds tried to encompass what they were looking at. The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. And

Orma had given me a timepiece that emitted blasphemy-inducing chirps at whatever early hour I specified.

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.

Every fair-minded person holding a position of authority must support the few who have stood up against the injustice being perpetrated in the name of blasphemy.

There is no doubt I have offended many people. No doubt, also, that I have blasphemed. I sometimes try to offend as part of my routine - after all, the essence of humour, even in a child, is the effort to shock and surprise.

Either blasphemy is a victimless crime or its victim is powerful enough to take care of himself without any help from you.

it is only because of the weird convention, almost universally accepted (see the quotation from Douglas Adams here), that religious faith is uniquely privileged: above and beyond criticism. Insulting a restaurant might seem trivial compared to insulting God. But restaurateurs and chefs really exist and they have feelings to be hurt, whereas blasphemy, as the witty bumper sticker puts it, is a victimless crime.

Ramsey made the mistake of guessing it didn't and shook his head, gaining him a scowl and a blasphemy from the cantankerous baron

And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

To some people independent though is heresy and critical thought blasphemy

The saddest consequence which attends the prosperity and success of God's enemies in the world, is their pride and blasphemy against God, his truth, and church.

Zanchy tells of one in Geneva, who being desired to go hear Calvin, answered his friend, 'If Paul were to preach, I would leave Paul himself to hear Calvin[35].' And will pride in the gifts of another so far transport, even to the borders of blasphemy, what work will then pride make when the gifts are a man's own?

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 is beneath it.

Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe.

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

Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?

Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.