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SUNDAY, JAN 3, 2010| 3 comments

Irish atheists challenge blasphemy law

An atheist group in the Irish Republic has defied a new blasphemy law by publishing a series of anti-religious quotations on its website.

Atheist Ireland says it will fight any action taken against it in court.

The quotations include the words of writers such as Mark Twain and Salman Rushdie, but also Jesus Christ, the Prophet Muhammad and Pope Benedict XVI.

The new law makes blasphemy a crime punishable by a fine of up to 25,000 euros (Â£22,000; $35,000).

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1/10/10 2:09 AM

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25 Blasphemous Quotations
By Atheist Ireland | Published: January 2, 2010
Published by Atheist Ireland on 1 January 2010

1. Jesus Christ, when asked if he was the son of God, in Matthew 26:64: â€œThou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.â€ ....

2. Jesus Christ, talking to Jews about their God, in John 8:44: â€œYe are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.â€ ....

Christians beware of new blasphemy laws!

1/3/10 3:58 PM

Leigh de Paor

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I'm Irish and a street preacher.
Although I disagree with their methods and the accuracy of their content I do agree with their stance. The previous laws in Ireland did not classify anything but anti-christian speech as blasphemy. This new law would prohibit the preaching of the gospel as it would be "blasphemy" against Islam to claim that Jesus is the only way to heaven.

1/3/10 11:50 AM

David G

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"This new law is both silly and dangerous," he said. "It is silly because medieval religious laws have no place in a modern secular republic, where the criminal law should protect people and not ideas."

God says

"The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
2 The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
3 They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge?" Psalm 14 and 53.

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