Quotes about blasphemy
Leo Tolstoy - Leo Tolstoy: Spiritual Writings
The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy it is the negation of Christianity.
Robert M. Price -
Heresy," by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime," implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you.
Karl Barth - Evangelical Theology: An Introduction
To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin.
Sierra Simone - Priest
Could a vow be not all the way broken? Could a sin be not all the way committed?
Richard Dawkins -
Either blasphemy is a victimless crime or its victim is powerful enough to take care of himself without any help from you.
James Agee - A Death in the Family
God is not here, Hannah said to herself; and made a small cross upon her breastbone, against her blasphemy.
Donna Haraway -
Blasphemy has always seemedto require taking things very seriously. I know no better stance to adopt from within the secular-religious, evangelical traditions of United States politics, including the politics of socialist feminism. Blasphemy protects one from the moral majority within, while still insisting on the need for community. Blasphemy is not apostasy. Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible thing
William Gaddis -
Then, what is sacrelige [sic]? If it is nothing more than a rebellion against dogma, it is eventually as meaningless as the dogma it defies, and they are both become hounds ranting in the high grass, never see the boar in the thicket. Only a religious person can perpetrate sacrelige: and if its blasphemy reaches the heart of the question; if it investigates deeply enough to unfold, not the pattern, but the materials of the pattern, and the necessity of a pattern; if it questions so deeply that t
Giordano Bruno -
I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
Abhijit Naskar - Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism
There are no other heaven and hell outside the human mind. Goodness is heaven, hatred is hell. Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy. Love is holiness, discrimination is sin.
Anton Szandor LaVey -
I dip my forefinger in the watery blood of your impotent mad redeemer, and write over his thorn-torn brow: The true prince of evil- the king of the slaves!
William Shakespeare - Measure for Measure
That in the captain's but a choleric word,Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
Kedar Joshi - Superultramodern Science And Philosophy
Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies.
Thomas Ligotti - The Nightmare Factory
Quinn seemed to have become one of a jaded philosophical society, a group of arcane deviates. Their raison d'etre was a kind of mystical masochism, forcing initiates toward feats of occult daredevilry - "glimpsing the inferno with eyes of ice", to take from the notebook a phrase that was repeated often and seemed a sort of chant of power. As I suspected, hallucinogenic drugs were used by the sect, and there was no doubt that they believed themselves communing with strange metaphysical venues. Th
Ashim Shanker - Only the Deplorable
Princess Cookie’s cognitive pathways may have required a more comprehensive analysis. He knew that it was possible to employ certain progressive methods of neural interface, but he felt somewhat apprehensive about implementing them, for fear of the risks involved and of the limited returns such tactics might yield. For instance, it would be a particularly wasteful endeavor if, for the sake of exhausting every last option available, he were even to go so far as resorting to invasive Ontological N
Christopher Hitchens -
I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words constitute an argument.
Robert G. Ingersoll - Woman and Child
I used to read in books how our fathers persecuted mankind. But I never appreciated it. I did not really appreciate the infamies that have been committed in the name of religion, until I saw the iron arguments that Christians used. I saw the Thumbscrew—two little pieces of iron, armed on the inner surfaces with protuberances, to prevent their slipping; through each end a screw uniting the two pieces. And when some man denied the efficacy of baptism, or may be said, 'I do not believe that a fish
P. Sufenas Virius Lupus - All-Power: A TransMythology
Let us not make a procrustean bed of trans issues and force deities of the past onto it, let us instead awaken trans and other gender-variant deities from their own beds! There is no possibility of blasphemy against existing powers and their human followers if the deities in question are our own, and we never have to "take them back," because they have always been ours to begin with!
Alcaeus of Mytilene - 612 BC
Such is the world that I can no longer bear to say prayers, for I am sick of speaking to the gods who choose to do nothingbut as they wish.
Abhijit Naskar - Illusion of Religion: A Treatise on Religious Fundamentalism
Acceptance is religion, sectarianism is blasphemy.
Abhijit Naskar - Spouse & Thinker
Anyone who utters “salvation only through Christ” inadvertently commits to the greatest blasphemy of all, which is differentiation, and this in turn diminishes the very essence of the title Christian.
Kathy Griffin -
A lot of people come up here and they thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. He didn't help me a bit. If it was up to him, Cesar Millan would be up here with that damn dog. So all I can say is, 'suck it, Jesus! This award is my God now'!
Sunday Adelaja - The Mountain of Ignorance
To some extent, it is almost blasphemous to think that insult, anger and irritation could be a positive force.
Cormac McCarthy - The Road
There is no God and we are his prophets.
Ron Marz - Volume 8
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.
Jasper Sole -
Blasphemy is the crime of not taking someone's beliefs as seriously as they do.
Tamora Pierce - Terrier
Pounce had it easier than any of us. No one noticed a black cat in the street. He stopped here and there to sniff aught of interest. Wherever our Rat stopped, Pounce was there, close enough to see up the Rat's nose. I was so proud. Now there was a proper god, making himself useful!Since my thought might be deemed blasphemy, I said silent prayers to the Goddess and to Mithros. I begged forgiveness and asked them not to misunderstand. Since I wasn't blasted where I stood, I guess they forgave me,
John Adams - Adams-Jefferson Letters
...The Presidential election has given me less anxiety than I myself could have imagined. The next administration will be a troublesome one, to whomsoever it falls, and our John has been too much worn to contend much longer with conflicting factions. I call him our John, because, when you were at the Cul de sac at Paris, he appeared to me to be almost as much your boy as
Giordano Bruno -
Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.
Michael Bassey Johnson -
To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.
Toba Beta - My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Science blasphemed when tries to eliminate scarcity in economy.
Toba Beta - My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
A skeptical man with a credo, 'Seeing is believing'. One day he found something so alien and said, 'I can't believe what I just saw'. Then the other man with different credo, 'Blessed are they who believe without seeing'. One day he found something so alien and said,'This is blasphemy, sinful and evil'.
Alan W. Watts - The Essential Alan Watts
Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.
Jeannette Walls - Half Broke Horses
The sound of thunder awake me, and when I got up, my feet sank into muddy water up to my ankles. Mother took Buster and Helen to high ground to pray, but I stayed behind with Apache and Lupe. We barricaded the door with the rug and started bailing water out the window. Mother came back and begged us to go pray with her on the hilltop. "To heck with praying!" I shouted. "Bail, dammit, bail!"Mom look mortified. I could tell she thought I'd probably doomed us all with my blasphemy, and I was a litt
Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
O Heavenly Children, the stories you have concocted in God's name have angered Him; for he would never instigate war between brothers, or encourage tribes to harbor resentment towards one another. He prefers the man who loves over the one who hates. And the man who spreads kindness, peace and knowledge, over the one who spreads lies, fear and terror — and misuses His name.
Abhijit Naskar - Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality
Sin, blasphemy, heresy – all these are primitive ideas created by primitive creatures, unworthy of the title “human”.