Quotes About Blasphemy

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 doesn't believe that.

Once blasphemy again God was the greatest blasphemy; but God died, and thereupon those blasphemers died too.

Our hymn-books resound with a melodious cursing of God and enduring Him forever.

I feel that the longest and worst punishment should be reserved for those who slandered God by inventing Hell.

If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.

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

Jesus is just a word I use to swear with.

A heresia e a blasfêmia persistiam como disfarces pomposos para oprimir a liberdade da palavra, a qual sempre escolhe assuntos que provocam implicitamente nos opressores um mal-estar secreto.

Yes. He loves us all. "No!" Tunic emphatically disagreed. "God does not." Well, fuck him, then, Raymer thought, giddy with heat and blasphemy. Shame on God. "Because a shirker is a coward." No, God is.

They demanded tolerance, and the right to worship as they wished, but they were never satisfied with that, he thought with exasperation. They believed their rivals were not just mistaken but evil. Catholic practices—the ways in which Europeans had worshipped for hundreds of years—were blasphemous, they said, and must be abolished. They did not practice the tolerance they preached.

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

Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction.

The horns blew, and Jesus came floating out of the damned sky like Magneto to save us all! How did you repay him? You shot him in the fucking face and he hit the ground! He hit that shit harder than Paul Walker driving through a Christmas tree farm! So, yes! Congratulations! You're the Antichrist and your father was a psychic!

One can only blaspheme if one believes.

Thus the Bolsheviks who five years earlier in a noisy campaign of blasphemy and ridicule exposed as sham the relics of Orthodox saints, created a holy relic of their own. Unlike the church's saints, whose remains were revealed to be nothing but rags and bones, their god, as befitted the age of science, was composed of alcohol, glycerin, and formalin.

All wars are grotesque blasphemies against God's greatest gift: Life. Until

Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing—with "obscenity" and "indecent exposure" fighting it out for second and third place.

The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too, to an outsider. The eucharist is just sublimated cannibalism, to the unawakened. When the Pope kisses the feet of the laity, he looks like an old toe-queen to some people. The rites of Pan look like a suburban orgy.

This crime called blasphemy was invented by priests for the purpose of defending doctrines not able to take care of themselves.

No religion but blasphemes a little.

Blasphemy is the crime of not taking someone's beliefs as seriously as they do.

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

Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity.

Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of science. It is a defiant and blasphemous faith, not unlike that held by the men who set out to build a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven and who believed that nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.