The Irish economy is struggling like an evolutionary teacher in the Bible Belt. So our government has decided that what’s needed is a law to punish blasphemy. The country is falling apart, and instead of a government working to get us out of the hole they dug we get this shit instead:
“Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern proposes to insert a new section into the Defamation Bill, stating: “A person who publishes or utters blasphemous matter shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine not exceeding €100,000.”
“Blasphemous matter” is defined as matter “that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of that religion; and he or she intends, by the publication of the matter concerned, to cause such outrage.”
This is crazy. It’s not the Middle Ages. If I want to call a make-believe deity names, then I will. If I want to insult idiots who believe that world is 6,000 years old and that evolution is a lie, then I will. These people are retards – the god they believe in is a retarded superstition.[1]
Feel free to argue your case in a rational manner, it’s your right to free expression to do so. But it’s also my right to insult the ridiculous.
- If you feel outraged by that remark, then good. That was my intention. [↩]
