A Catholic bishop has called for a blasphemy law in Germany, saying all religions deserved legal protection from attack in order to preserve human dignity…
“Those who injure the souls of believers with scorn and derision must be put in their place and in some cases also punished,” said Bamberg Archbishop Ludwig Schick…
He said there should be a “Law against the derision of religious values and feelings,” the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported.
Satire magazine Titanic raised the topic of blasphemy and respect for religion last month after publishing an image of Pope Benedict with a yellow stain on his cassock in reference to the Vatican leaks scandal.
The Pope took legal action which succeeded in banning further printing of the image, although copies of the magazine already published were not removed from sale. Yet his legal argument was based on his personal rights rather than any protection of religion…
…The idea of a blasphemy law was slammed by the Green Party, whose parliamentary leader Volker Beck said satire and irony could not be banned…He said that ironic or satirical statements might not be popular among those targeted, but they could not be forbidden.
“Believers do not need any greater criminal legal protection against defamation, slander and attack than other social groups,” he said.
I don’t care whether the theocrats are Catholic or Southern Baptist, Orthodox Jews or Muslims – justice provided by religious ideology should remain catalogued in history books as an aberration leftover from the Dark Ages.
I though the holy office (the inquisitor’s office)
was officially closed in 1933?
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There should be a law against belief in fairies, leprechauns, poltergeists, aliens, bigfoot, magick, and a Supreme Being that lives on a mountain and shakes the Earth with earthquakes and defines marriage for us.
But law enforcement would be impossible without reliable mind-reading scanners and a ubiquitous form of thought control.
I am sorry the Pope soiled his dress, but worse things have happened to alter boys.
My religious problems start and end with other peoples’ religions insisting that I‘m also supposed to believe in their specific brand of Great Father Up In The Sky unmitigated idiocy, or they feel justified in killing me…
I don’t care if they believe in Baal, The Subgenius’s Bob Dobb’s, Chuthulu or even The Flying Spaghetti Monster, just don’t insist that I have to believe in it too.
(But I have never had any trouble believing that 1 + 2 equaled 2.)
… a walk through the ocean of most souls would scarcely get your feet wet … – The Deteriorata
CRAP!!! that should be 1 + 1 equaled 2.
The law proposed would require you to believe, or at least not disagree, that
1 = 3 /\ 3=1 ≡ ∞
Its math.
Considering what’s happened in England and elsewhere in the EU I’m shocked they didn’t go to jail for this. This is clearly hate speech. What got the Greek female kicked out of the Olympics for posting on Twitter was very tame compared to this. Of course most hyper PC people don’t extend the same protection to groups they don’t like as they do the selected groups they have decided to protect nor do judge their behavior using the same standards.
Notice the crucial difference: athlete have been kicked out by the national sport organization which has arbitrary power (equivalent to power of business to hire and fire and set code of conduct within it). Progressives all over want Government to set code of conduct for speech they like/dislike (this includes Islamofascist and their ban on say, talking about Christianity or even having a Bible [actual law in Maldives for example] and Left Catholic branch – so no special religion is in or out of it). That is not right.
However, many countries not only lack US First Amendment equivalent but already have laws on books to limit speech. Germany is one of them. Hence discussion there is fair: should all speech be freed and if not – who sets the limit and why (and hence why is it fine to insult Catholics but not Jews… [current German law would jail publisher of equivalent front page with some Rabi instead]).
Saddest of all – USA, despite its own Constitutional free speech attacks other countries for allowing free speech. Country of my origin just received official diplomatic notice from US and complaint because government there allowed hate speech to be published (equivalent of which is published daily in US and is protected…). Absolute shame (although I perceive such speech evil and hate here or there – that is the price one pays for all speech to be protected) but no wonder considering who is currently in power and what is their ideology.
I had never seen their print comedy rag, so its not as if I could make the argument that I couldn’t avoid it, now could I?
They should show the cum stained red cardinals’ robes and the same stains on the priests’ black robes…
I respect no religion because they are all evil incarnate at their very hearts.
They all start off with: There’s one (or several) being (or beings) who live in the sky… without any visible means of support, so they need your help, in the form of your cold hard cash.
Fuck that…
Lord, protect me from your followers
I just noticed the actual pictures posted.
I didn’t know the Pope was a train kind of guy.
Once and for all here is the final fucking word on religions.
http://tinyurl.com/yrl2lk
So much for turning the other cheek…
I thought they already had laws against free speech, what with people going to jail for offending Islam or for denying the Holocaust. If you bash a Muslim for denying the Holocaust, would you go to jail?
Can we bring back the ordeals too?
Isn’t the word Blasphemy, invented by the church used to Blaspheme the one who uses Blasphemy?
Actually this wouldn’t be a bad idea. Imagine if we had such laws. This blog would be whittled back down to technology posts. Humanity would be all the better for it.
“Those who injure the souls of believers with scorn and derision must be put in their place and in some cases also punished,” said Bamberg Archbishop Ludwig Schick on Wednesday.
What should the punishment be for those who injure souls with Roman Catholic doctrine?
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If you bash a Muslim for saying the Holocaust did not go far enough, do you go to jail?
No one is more deserving of scorn, derision & psychoanalysis than Our Dear Deity.
You can’t psychoanalyze something that does not exist.
You can’t hate something that does not exist.
You can, however, analyze the holy scriptures and get inside the heads of the people that were inspired to scam people for their own personal gain.
Pat Robertson is a perfect example of a scam artist that talks to God and informs his believers of the thoughts in God’s mind.
I could do the same thing, and rake in millions of dollars from gullible and easy marks, but I have a conscience.
My imagination conjures up a Hell reserved for preachers, priests, and politicians, but I am resolved to tolerate them until they finally croak and leave the rest of us in peace.
Whose definition of blasphemy should be used?
For example, the Christian Bible would define anything written after it that claims to be scripture to be blasphemy.
(Not religious books in general, just things that claim to be of equal validity to the Bible). This would put Moslems in the hot seat for starters as well as JWs Mormons and all sorts of others.
I understand that (Some?) Moslems say that what the Christian Bible says about the crucifixion, for example, are blasphemous.
The list goes on. Any set of beliefs that says it is correct must, by definition, say other beliefs are wrong.
As an exception, I don’t think Sikhs call anyone else blasphemous but they are very nice and tolerant people.
Buddhists are tolerable.
Once you work through the logic chain, it becomes obvious that the reason the universe exists is for Americans to have big houses with 3 car garages and drive 4x4s, to propose anything else is blasphemy and a crime against humanity.
Well ain’t that some shit (and piss).