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?blasphemy law

  • 09-09-2009 1:09pm
    #1
    metrovelvet
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    What exactly is it? ANd what are the punishments?


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  • #2
    Cróga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭Cróga


    According to the Bible blasphemy is only when you deny the Holy Spirit. Mark 3:29


  • #3
    metrovelvet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,376 ✭✭✭metrovelvet


    Didnt Ireland put in place some blasphemy law recently? Did I hear that?


  • #4
    Cróga
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭Cróga


    metrovelvet wrote: »
    Didnt Ireland put in place some blasphemy law recently? Did I hear that?

    It doesnt matter, if you're standing in the kingdom of God then the Bible is the law and trumps their statutes which only apply to persons/government employees (creation of a government i.e your birth cert) and not men (creation of God/Divine being). If you dont believe in the bible thats fine, but the court does - they use it. Ever hear that saying "there are no atheists in fox holes" same goes in a court. :D

    Also notice Article 41 of the Constitution. This is from the Literal Translation (from Irish to English) and not from the watered down blue book version that you get in the shops:
    The State acknowledges that the Family is the basic primary group-unit of/for society according to nature, and that it is a moral institution which has inalienable and invincible rights which are more ancient and higher than any human statute.


  • #5
    Tom Young
    Legal Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 4,338 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tom Young


    Croga wrote: »
    It doesnt matter, if you're standing in the kingdom of God then the Bible is the law and trumps their statutes which only apply to persons/government employees (creation of a government i.e your birth cert) and not men (creation of God/Divine being). If you dont believe in the bible thats fine, but the court does - they use it. Ever hear that saying "there are no atheists in fox holes" same goes in a court. :D

    Also notice Article 41 of the Constitution. This is from the Literal Translation (from Irish to English) and not from the watered down blue book version that you get in the shops:

    Were you planning on addressing the OPs question or just driveling on? The OP wants to know about the Defamation Bill, not what you've posted above.

    Perhaps you might focus your mind on addressing the reality and intent of the question rather than some sort of philosophical hippy-like ranting which is beginning to get under my skin.

    Tom


  • #6
    Carawaystick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭Carawaystick


    Croga wrote: »
    It doesnt matter, if you're standing in the kingdom of God then the Bible is the law and trumps their statutes which only apply to persons/government employees (creation of a government i.e your birth cert) and not men (creation of God/Divine being). If you dont believe in the bible thats fine, but the court does - they use it. Ever hear that saying "there are no atheists in fox holes" same goes in a court. :D

    The courts have this funny insistence on this little thing called evidence. There's very little of it for any god.

    The penalties were reduced from about a hundred grand fine to maybe 25 grand and I can't remember if the imprisonment was reduced.

    The whole idea of people holding certain illogical beliefs being given legal protection from ridicule while other illogical beliefs not seems daft to be honest.
    On a more practical note, Islam and Hindism or Islam and Buddhism have incompatable belief systems regarding gods and the number thereof. Asserting the tenets of one of these faiths would be blaspheming the other....

    Don't know if publishing the danish Mohamod cartoons would be blasphemy under the law.


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