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I learned on the BBC news website yesterday that the blasphemy laws are likely to be repealed. This news came as quite a shock to me as I didn’t even know we still had blasphemy as an offence. It’s just so Dark Ages!
I don’t know why it is but whenever I hear the word ‘blasphemy’ it instantly and automatically conjures up an image in my mind of the Reverend Ian Paisley dressed in witch-finder black, arm outstretched, pointing finger, screaming ‘blasphemer’ in that strident voice of his. Mind you, he belongs in the Dark Ages as well so I guess it’s not an unreasonable association.
In a larger sense, the laws shouldn’t be worded or addressed as blasphemy, as much as they should be worded as tolerance of religious beliefs. It seems as if religion often seems to be excluded from practices tolerance these days.
@Edinburgh Lover: Universal tolerance of everyones religious beliefs would be nice…