Posted on 06/06/2017 10:46:13 AM PDT by marshmallow
Religion should not dictate what is allowed and what is forbidden to say publicly, says MP who proposed the repeal
Danish lawmakers have repealed a 334-year-old blasphemy law that forbids public insults of a religion, such as the burning of holy books.
Only a handful of blasphemy trials have taken place in the past 80 years, and several high-profile cases have been dropped, including one involving a caricature of the prophet Muhammad published in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in 2005.
Denmark was the only Scandinavian country with a blasphemy law, which called for up to four months in prison upon conviction, although most people were fined instead.
Politicians who wanted to repeal the law introduced in 1683 do not believe that there should be special rules protecting religions against expressions, the Danish parliament said on its website.
But remarks and acts that threaten or demean certain groups of people because of their religious beliefs will still be punishable.
Religion should not dictate what is allowed and what is forbidden to say publicly, Bruno Jerup, an MP who proposed to repeal the law, was quoted as saying by Jyllands-Posten. It gives religion a totally unfair priority in society.
Right. That's the job of the omnipotent, omniscient state.
This means one can blaspheme Almighty God but one cannot call sodomy sinful lest one be charged with a "hate crime".
That's the job of the omnipotent, omniscient state...
...establishment?
"Islam did not rise except through Ali's sword and Khadijah's wealth,"
Here come the riots.
For reference, St. Scholastica, St. Benedict's sister, founded the first order of Catholic nuns in the West. She died in AD 543.
Mohammed was born in AD 570.
For reference, Islam is a state-establishing fraud, and it’s not unique.
Fallible and Uninspired dominionists who get insulted when contradicted publicly - for $1000 in the final Jeopardy round, Krik!



For Reference, the number of the counting shall be 3 - not two nor four - and five is RIGHT OUT!
[Monty Python-Holy Hand Grenade]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOrgLj9lOwk
Don’t worry. The moslems will bring it back, and no liberal will complain about it.
Of course it’s not unique. It’s a syncretism of Judaism, Christianity, and Arab paganism.
How's that centally banked state-established "beautiful creation" running down in Paraguay these days?

http://www.google.com/#q=paraguay+reductions+beautiful
"I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits....
Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as only a king
of the gipsies can assume, dressed as printers, publishers, writers and schoolmasters?
If ever there was a body of men who merited damnation on earth and in Hell,
it is this society of Loyolas.
Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration
to offer them an asylum."
--John Adams to Thomas Jefferson; May, 1816
>>Dont worry. The moslems will bring it back,
After all, that whole sacking Jerusalem thing worked out so great for the state-establishers the first time.
Oops.
>>Its a syncretism of
There is nothing new under the Aten.
I forget - What was Akhenaten’s gender identity-ish cult a syncretism of?
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=Akhenaten+gender-identity
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