In the more than fifteen years since the tempest in a teapot initiated by Rudolph Giuliani's «outrage» at the inclusion of Ofili's painting The Holy Virgin Mary, 1996, in the 1999 exhibition «Sensation» at the Brooklyn Museum, no other artist has been framed
for such blasphemy.
We would have the stance that this obvious slur on our God is unacceptable and repercussions must be dealt
for such blasphemy!
Not exact matches
It's the height of
blasphemy to use God
for such purposes, yet Jews and Christians do it all the time as if it was second nature.
For instance, when speaking eschatologically about the nuclear arms race, a preacher would refer to
such things as the
blasphemy of destroying God's handiwork and the idolatry of the bomb, not simply to a nuclear freeze.
There were many others less lucky,
such as the great Sufi mystic al - Hallaj, who was executed
for blasphemy after running through the streets of Basra shouting «ana» l - haqq»» literally, «I am the truth»» the statement having been interpreted by the authorities, probably correctly, as meaning «I am God.»
Shouldn't you be checking with an expert like,
for example, Ms. Palin, before spouting
such blasphemy?
To this day, Islamic law mandates death
for certain crimes
such as
blasphemy and apostasy.
The US State Department flagged anti-conversion and
blasphemy laws as one of its biggest concerns
for religious freedom globally, stating in 2012 that «
such laws often violate freedoms of religion and expression and often are applied in a discriminatory manner.»
For Christians
such as myself, Mormonism is straight
blasphemy, in that they believed God was a man on another planet long ago, and if they are good Mormons, they too will rise to be a god.
Sacrilege,
blasphemy, call it want you want, but the famous factory gates in Maranello will be opening to allow the big cash cow out,
for two clear reasons: The first is that Ferrari has customers who want
such a car and the Italian company would rather their money came to them than went to a rival.