My job was not to persecute people for blasphemous advances of the sciences, or for heretical religious teachings. |
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The film was ferociously attacked as blasphemous by the Church, although controversy merely enhanced its popularity. |
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Seen in context, there was nothing blasphemous about the second act and the overall theme of the piece was a highly moral one. |
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Mostly, the material they reviewed was regarded as prototypically blasphemous or sexually explicit, but there was wide variation in content. |
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Either conception is to the Jew not only impious and blasphemous, but incomprehensible. |
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A student once came to me troubled with blasphemous thoughts racing through his mind. |
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The application of logic and free discussion to theological questions was considered blasphemous. |
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It may be that this concerns us little, for we remember saying no blasphemous words. |
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The Iconoclasts asserted that religious images were both blasphemous and impossible. |
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The story begins, as we all know, with his blasphemous worship of his gold. |
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The beast does things in the name of God, yet is blasphemous because the motives are wrong. |
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I was told to pray, and I mocked them, because I couldn't see the point in it, so I was punished for being blasphemous. |
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As Chesterton said, if you want to know what a culture holds sacred, just look at what it considers blasphemous. |
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Applying the attribute of reverence to a mortal being borders on the blasphemous. |
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A third common law offence which may involve strict liability is that of blasphemous libel. |
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I suspect that it is probably sacrilegious or even blasphemous to suggest such a thing. |
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The Iconoclasts believed that the display of images of God or other Holy persons or saints was blasphemous idol worshipping. |
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Already they are blaspheming and doing blasphemous things against the church. |
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The following query may be a bit blasphemous but I shall ask anyway as it has been preying my mind for a while. |
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The people who stay there are at the same time loyal and treacherous, pious and blasphemous, violent and generous. |
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After she jimmied her way inside, she punched the pulpit and made blasphemous gestures to the icons. |
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I believe that they should bail out of a blasphemous and unholy organization that is going down, hard. |
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Later religions considered this concept blasphemous, as it was akin to man proclaiming himself as God. |
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The very idea that he would leak stories to her is preposterous, outrageous, possibly blasphemous and undoubtedly iniquitous. |
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Some of the early Church Fathers stated for the record that it was blasphemous to celebrate this festival. |
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It was the most blasphemous, the most rageful, the funniest, the most American of all conceits for a novel. |
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They had convulsive seizures, blasphemous screaming and trance-like state of mind. |
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After hearing the blasphemous clips insulting our beloved prophet, I would not hesitate to go after revenge. |
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This was manifested in his dealings with the issue of Islamophobia and the blasphemous cartoons. |
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That may be so, but religions are in the public domain, and as such will be the subject of blasphemous caricatures. |
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The religious right and the tabloid press became strange bedfellows as they rushed to agree that his claims were absurd or even blasphemous. |
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The primary argument you will see made time and again as to why Ahmadiyya are blasphemous or deviant is their belief, basically, in two things. |
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Therefore, from 8 July blasphemy and blasphemous libel will no longer be criminal offences in England and Wales. |
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Theatrical costume, tawdry play-acting, lying rhetoric, bombastic and blasphemous oaths should go. |
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So what is really so blasphemous and guilt-imposing about magic? |
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And the chefs, brawling in an empty kitchen, will be ignored by sensible people who will eat and enjoy the sandwich, blasphemous ingredients and all. |
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Of course, being insulted and spit on is not very serious, but blasphemous and vulgar language are not welcome in a supposedly family event. |
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It would be blasphemous to cut out certain psalms and keep only those that please us. |
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The NRSV is virtually blasphemous at the worst and insulting at the least to Our Lady. |
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Religious leaders have often been prominent among those who considered smoking immoral or outright blasphemous. |
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The best parts of such a book are supposed to be blasphemous. |
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Terms formerly considered blasphemous or irreligious are today non-religious and inoffensive to the population as a whole, even if perhaps in poor taste. |
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I am very aware that speaking here, in these comfortable and safe conditions, might appear to be laughable or even blasphemous to those who are suffering physically or whose nearest and dearest are. |
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If these associations stand up under scrutiny, they put the imitator at the opposite pole from a god, thus rendering the products of imitation not only lowly nothings but more malevolently profane, even blasphemous. |
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In their view, the host used the term as an epithetic expression of frustration but not in an intentionally irreverent, blasphemous or irreligious way. |
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Braised brisket subs in for seared rib-eye, provolone for the typical Wiz or American cheese, while additions of horseradish mayo, hot peppers, roasted tomatoes and a fried egg are considered downright blasphemous. |
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The move is aimed at protecting the sensibilities of Indians from blasphemous material, though the volume of content posted online by India's 100m internet users makes any such regulation impossible. |
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Section 79 of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, which received Royal Assent on 8 May 2008, contains provisions which abolish the common-law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel. |
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Djibouti accepts the practice of monotheism. Any attempt to denigrate a religion is regarded as blasphemous and is punishable by the Djiboutian justice system. |
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States parties concerned should also include in their reports information relating to practices considered by their laws and jurisprudence to be punishable as blasphemous. |
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If the article is defamatory or seditious or blasphemous or obscene, or commits any other legal wrong, the paper can afterwards be made liable for it. |
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The judge ruled that this was not necessary but told them that if blasphemous content continued to appear on Facebook, they could file a contempt of court case against the authorities. |
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After she restored them in the second edition, Moxon was prosecuted and convicted of blasphemous libel, though he escaped punishment. |
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A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog! |
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