The modern-day attack on blasphemy is to describe it as an offensive to people rather than to God

Submitted by Someone (Israel), Sep 24, 2012 at 23:12

In fact, it's as much about 'insulting God and his messengers' now as it was in the past and in the past it was as much about protecting people as it is today.

We all grew up knowing about those dark days, dark centuries. It's not for nothing that what followed is described as Enlightenment. It's hard to believe today's politically-correct left-wing is trying to drag us back to what we fought to climb out of, this time dressing up anti-blasphemy as "about people, not God".

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