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Blasphemy - An ecumenical matter

  • 26-05-2015 12:52AM
    #1
    shane7218
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 251 ✭✭


    It's about time this ridiculous law is removed from the constitution in my opinion. Does anyone think there will be any opposition to its removal ? (Aside from the enlightened folks at IONA)


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  • #2
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    Careful now


  • #3
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Down with this sort of thing.


  • #4
    Smiles35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,749 ✭✭✭Smiles35


    I'm all for the free gob, really. But I really want sedition kept for a rainy day.


  • #5
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    A three legged dog walks into a bar and says...


  • #6
    silverfeather
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,154 ✭✭✭silverfeather


    Has it ever been used against anyone in practice?


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  • #7
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    silverfeather wrote: »
    Has it ever been used against anyone in practice?

    Sure some of our none Catholic members of the community threatened legal action did they not after Paris... Stating the blasphemy law's we have.


  • #8
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,784 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    Sure some of our none Catholic members of the community threatened legal action did they not after Paris...

    I think they are non Protestant as well.


  • #9
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Blasphemy is the least of our worries.

    It's the lack of holy water which is the main threat.


  • #10
    Totofan99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭Totofan99


    The constitution was basically written by Archbishop McQuaid. It should be rewritten to remove all mention of religion. Religion has no place in a constitution. Just my opinion, of course.


  • #11
    Totofan99
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭Totofan99


    Notwork Error wrote: »
    Your opinion has no place in the constitution!

    You could be right. But Ireland is supposed to be a secular state.


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  • #12
    FreaksAndGeeks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭FreaksAndGeeks


    The law realistically would never be enforced today so nobody really cares about it imo


  • #13
    macker33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 375 ✭✭macker33


    shane7218 wrote: »
    It's about time this ridiculous law is removed from the constitution in my opinion. Does anyone think there will be any opposition to its removal ? (Aside from the enlightened folks at IONA)

    Its a good law, i like it, of course nobody obeys it and its never enforced.
    Why get rid of it, it isnt doing any harm?


  • #14
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    silverfeather wrote: »
    Has it ever been used against anyone in practice?


    It was used against me in a training match.
    I swerved and tapped in between its legs.


  • #15
    DrGreenthumb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 720 ✭✭✭DrGreenthumb


    Well god is a cúnt, let bishop Brennan bring on some charges and I'll give him a good kick up the arse


  • #16
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,461 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    macker33 wrote: »
    Its a good law, i like it, of course nobody obeys it and its never enforced.
    Why get rid of it, it isnt doing any harm?

    A group threatened to take Media to court over blasphemy. After recent happenings in France. Needs getting rid off.


  • #17
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    A group threatened to take Media to court over blasphemy. After recent happenings in France. Needs getting rid off.


    I think it's actually impossible to win a case of blasphemy.
    Forget the name of the site that some guy created specifically to take the piss out of the law.

    Anyhoo another referendum to remove it.


  • #18
    Smiles35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,749 ✭✭✭Smiles35


    I remember that. Then Miriam 'O Callahan said the spokesman wanted to live under differnt laws. Working as intended for some of this stuff tbh.


  • #19
    macker33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 375 ✭✭macker33


    Well you know a country is fvcked in the head when it will protect gays but not christians.


  • #20
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,651 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    macker33 wrote: »
    Well you know a country is fvcked in the head when it will protect gays but not christians.

    Christians aren't protected here?

    Have Romans been throwing them to the lions again?


  • #21
    jimgoose
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,237 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    Didn't that only come in recently courtesy of some Fianna Fail clodhopper??


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  • #22
    Knasher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭Knasher


    macker33 wrote: »
    Why get rid of it, it isnt doing any harm?

    It was, rather infamously, used by Pakistan in front of the UN to try and promote a blasphemy law in other countries. I'm not sure I'd agree that the law is harmless when it is providing support to counties that execute people for it.


  • #23
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,923 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    macker33 wrote: »
    Well you know a country is fvcked in the head when it will protect gays but not christians.

    How is it not 'protecting' Christians?


  • #24
    GAAman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,370 ✭✭✭GAAman


    kneemos wrote: »
    A three legged dog walks into a bar and says...

    I'm lookin for the man that shot my paw....


  • #25
    gormdubhgorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,426 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    Ah jayus? What will I say if there is no blasphemy then will be no "Ah Jayus's" anymore?.
    On the plus side there will be one fewer commandment to learn...

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • #26
    Not a NSA agent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 781 ✭✭✭Not a NSA agent


    gormdubhgorm wrote: »
    Ah jayus? What will I say if there is no blasphemy then will be no "Ah Jayus's" anymore?.
    On the plus side there will be one fewer commandment to learn...

    You can't say ah jaysus until it's removed, you're oppressing macker!


  • #27
    gormdubhgorm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,426 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    It is funny how nobody say's "Ah Mohammed" maybe that is because they don't know what he looks like no one has ever seen his face :D

    So it would be "is it yourself" or whatever the Arabic equivalent is!

    It is all very confusing didn't Van Morrison write a song about the Muslims called the "Sunni side of the street"?

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



  • #28
    mickydoomsux
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,287 ✭✭✭mickydoomsux


    macker33 wrote: »
    Well you know a country is fvcked in the head when it will protect gays but not christians.

    Protect them from what?

    Sane people ridiculing their childish stories and backwards opinions?


  • #29
    valoren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,706 ✭✭✭valoren


    It's not just applicable to a deity though and that's the problem with it.
    Any religious or 'things' considered holy fall under the blasphemy remit.

    It's about as practical to everyday life as the 'law' in Harry Potter saying don't use magic in public where 'Muggles' could see it.


  • #30
    Akrasia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,079 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Has everyone forgotten Boards.ie's own Blasphemygate from 2013?

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057057881

    Blasphemy laws have a chilling effect on the public discourse, and they also have the potential to be used to stifle free speech. All it takes is a well funded religious group to threaten legal action and they can frighten media outlets into censoring their content.

    Ban billionaires



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  • #31
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    macker33 wrote: »
    Well you know a country is fvcked in the head when it will protect gays but not christians.

    What did the Chirstians ever do for us?


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