September 30th: Happy International Blasphemy Day!

[NeoGreen]

https://centerforinquiry.org/press_releases/center_for_inquiry_to_celebrate_blasphemy_day_events_set_for_sept-_30/

Center For Inquiry to Celebrate Blasphemy Day; Events Set For Sept. 30
Amherst, New York (Sept. 29, 2009)

The Center for Inquiry will join worldwide participants this Wednesday in commemorating International Blasphemy Day

Participation in Blasphemy Day is part of the Center for Inquiry’s larger Campaign for Free Expression, an effort to focus attention on one of our most crucial rights: the right of individuals to express their viewpoints, opinions, and beliefs about all subjects—including religion.

The motivation behind Blasphemy Day is not to offend the religious. The primary purpose of commemorating Blasphemy Day is to call attention to the continuing threat to free expression posed by blasphemy laws—as well as the informal social taboos that treat religion as a subject that is off limits. CFI maintains that not only should there be no legal restrictions on speech about religion, but informal social taboos on discussing religion should be discarded. “Placing religion off limits in social discourse is just another, gentler way of prohibiting examination and criticism of religion,” CFI President and CEO Ronald A. Lindsay said “In my view, all subjects of human interest should be open to examination and criticism by humans.”

Sept. 30 has been designated International Blasphemy Day because it is the anniversary of the original 2005 publication of the Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad. The fury which arose within the Islamic community following this publication led to massive riots, attacks on foreign embassies and deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_Day

In some countries, blasphemy is punishable by death, such as in Afghanistan,[5] Pakistan,[6] Turkmenistan, and Saudi Arabia.[7]

As of 2015, at least fourteen member states of the European Union maintain criminal blasphemy or religious insult laws. These are Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France (Alsace-Moselle region only, long unenforced, and officially repealed in January 2017[8][9] ), Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom (Scotland and Northern Ireland only).[10] Turkey also has similar laws.[10]

In 2009 six US states still had anti-blasphemy laws on their books: Massachusetts, Michigan, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Wyoming, but law professor Sarah Barringer Gordon states that they are "rarely enforced."

[Thomas Hurt]

1. Be sure to take Trump's name in vain today!

[RainCaster]

2. You do mean DFT, right?

That pussy grabbing corrupt traitor needs more than a spanking.

[Voltaire2]

3. I'm mainlining Yahweh!

[guillaumeb]

4. Calisse!!!

[NeoGreen]

5. Way to stay classy...

...g, way to stay classy:

Interjection

câlisse

(Quebec, vulgar) fuck!

Synonyms: ciboire, crisse, tabarnak

-off

[guillaumeb]

6. Calisse!!

Calisse literally means chalice, as in the chalice used to celebrate the Mass.

And ciboire is the French equivalent of ciborium.

Tabarnac translates in English as tabernacle, where the Host is kept.

[NeoGreen]

7. Well isn't that special...

...your one-word response to the OP makes perfect sense now.

-off

[guillaumeb]

8. Yes it does, because blasphemy

included using sacred terms in a secular manner. Using the word calisse as an oath would have been considered blasphemy.

[NeoGreen]

9. Sure...

...that's it. Go with that.

[guillaumeb]

10. You prefer your narrative.

I understand. But does your narrative require that you ignore actual definitions?

blasphemy noun
blas·​phe·​my | ˈblas-fə-mē



plural blasphemies
Definition of blasphemy
1
a
: the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God
accused of blasphemy
b
: the act of claiming the attributes of a deity
for a mere man to suggest that he was … divine could only be viewed … as blasphemy
— John Bright †1889
2
: irreverence toward something considered sacred or inviolable

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blasphemy

If it does, I understand.

[NeoGreen]

11. Now you're back to...

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...speaking to yourself again.

[guillaumeb]

12. And you are returning to ignoring what you cannot refute.

have fun with the narrative.

[NeoGreen]

13. Rinse and repeat...

...g, rinse and repeat.

You're becoming very proficient.

[Major Nikon]

14. It's the expected response from Captain Obvious

The word in question is considered a blasphemous vulgarity in Eastern Canada, but pretty much nowhere else in the French speaking world or any other language for that matter.

I’m sure it’s his idea of a joke which instead turned into a faceplant which is still hilarious in a more unintentional fashion.

[NeoGreen]

15. For may years while growing up in WNY I had an adult next-door neighbor...

...who had moved to the US from Quebec.

I am somewhat familiar with the particular vulgarities of French Canadians.