Quotes About Blasphemy

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

Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant

Take the talents of wisdom and integrity. Without Christ, wisdom is double foolishness and integrity double sin, because they not only fail to perceive the wisdom and righteousness of Christ, but hinder and blaspheme the salvation of Christ.

within a few weeks, the young minister Reverend George York , had expelled the family, accusing them of blasphemy and devil worship. their neighbors suspected the some of them feared the Foxes were in league with the devil, and must have encouraged their daughters to join them by engaging in some kid of 'witchcraft.

The God of the Jews was to exist in the Word and through the Word, an unprecedented conception requiring the highest order of abstract thinking. Iconography thus became blasphemy so that a new kind of God could enter a culture.

No matter what the political environment, blasphemy laws lend the power of the state to particular religious authorities and effectively reinforce extreme views, since the most conservative or hard-line elements in a religious community are generally the quickest to take offence and the first to claim the mantle of orthodoxy. Virtually any act has the potential to draw an accusation and prosecution

Kto czyta, ?eby tylko zrozumie?, dopuszcza si? blasfemii. Czyta si?, ?eby prze?ywa? - to g??bszy, bardziej ca?o?ciowy rodzaj rozumienia.

The Cross is the sign of contradiction—destroying the seriousness of the Law, of the Empire, of the armies . . . But the magicians keep turning the cross to their own purposes. Yes, it is for them too a sign of contradiction: the awful blasphemy of the religious magician who makes the cross contradict mercy! This is of course the ultimate temptation of Christianity!

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

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

You must not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.

The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse. So they brought him to Moses. (His motherís name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

“Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.

Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD must surely be put to death; the whole assembly must surely stone him, whether he is a foreign resident or native; if he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death.

Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they took the blasphemer outside the camp and stoned him. So the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses.

But the person who sins defiantly, whether a native or foreigner, blasphemes the LORD. That person shall be cut off from among his people.

I told him that I would judge his house forever for the iniquity of which he knows, because his sons blasphemed God and he did not restrain them.

But seat two scoundrels opposite him and have them testify, ëYou have cursed both God and the king!í Then take him out and stone him to death.”

who replied, “Tell your master that this is what the LORD says: ëDo not be afraid of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.

Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

They spoke against the God of Jerusalem as they had spoken against the gods of the peoples of the earth—the work of human hands.

Even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ëThis is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,í and when they committed terrible blasphemies,

But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.

They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.