64 Quotes About Blasphemy

What a bad conscience religion must have is to be judged by the fact that it is forbidden under pain of such severe punishment to mock it.- On Religion

Blasphemy is not an offence against truth, but the offence of truth against Priestcraft.

Churches are just clubs for people who like to join things.

You're supposed to be made in His image, and yet you're all such ungrateful pieces of filth. You only bow your heads when you want something.

If He ever did come back, if He ever dared to show His face, or his Glyph, or whatever in the Garden again— if after all this destruction, if after all the terrible days of this terrible century, He returned to see how much suffering His abandonment had created, if all He has to offer is death, you should sue the bastard. That’s my only contribution to all this theology: sue the bastard for walking out. How dare He.

Quite suddenly she understood the impulse that caused men to engage in casual blasphemy.

When they're put back into popular culture and the media in ways that don't seem consistent with their sacredness, their holiness, that's where blasphemy occurs. The test of blasphemy is often not whether we as the consumers feel a T-shirt of an icon or a statue is misplaced or misused. The real test is what do members of that community of faith think?

There was no religious component to the violence. All the violence was influenced by small groups of boys who were not moved by the blasphemy issue.

points out that, for Genet, blasphemy is a sign of respect.