15 Quotes About Blasphemy

Sin, blasphemy, heresy — all these are primitive ideas created by primitive creatures, unworthy of the title “human”. Abhijit Naskar

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. Abhijit Naskar

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. Ron Marz

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, or they hadn't heard my blasphemy. Tamora Pierce

Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies. Kedar Joshi

Could a vow be not all the way broken? Could a sin be not all the way committed? Sierra Simone

To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin. Karl Barth

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. Robert M. Price

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see. Giordano Bruno

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 the doubt it arouses is frightening and cannot be dismissed; then it has done its true sacreligious [sic] work, in the service of its adversary: the only service that nihilism can ever perform.(unused 1949 prefatory note to The Recognitions) . William Gaddis

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 things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour and serious play. Donna Haraway

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! Unknown