Sentences with phrase «of blasphemy»

When Jesus was accused of blasphemy because he claimed to be the Son of God, he answered the Jews: «Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

Update (Mar. 13): Salvation Army colonel and Pakistan territory director Robert J. Ward confirms that pastor Asghar Nizam Ranjha has been relocated after «unfounded» charges of blasphemy against him.

«His distraught family have expressed great disappointment that Mukhtar Masih died with charges of blasphemy over his head.

To the dismay of his supporters (below), Basuki Tjahaja Purnama was jailed after being found guilty of blasphemy against Islam, despite prosecutors recommending probation.

New development in the case support the stance taken by the critics of blasphemy law in Pakistan.

This third and final option is the sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.

I have a glass of wine instead, which is basically a form of blasphemy because this bar's cocktails are so good that they've won awards.

An Algerian Christian convicted of blasphemy for a Facebook post has gone on hunger - strike following... More

The laws cover other forms of blasphemy against Islam as well.

He was tried before a religious court, and convicted of blasphemy for claiming a special relationship with God.

As Christians throughout Pakistan demand more protection in the wake of a church suicide bombing that killed more than 80 worshipers, some good news has surfaced on the other main challenge facing the beleaguered community: false accusations of blasphemy against Islam.

To equivocate, to make allowances and to pretend that «many sides» are to blame is to side with the worst kind of blasphemy because so many of the people deceived by these satanic beliefs do so in the name of Christianity.

I'm one of the few people who actually loved Wind Waker's ambitions from the get - go, but for most gamers, the «cartoony» graphics were some kind of act of blasphemy against Ocarina of Time's relatively brooding atmosphere.

In R (on the application of Green) v The City of Westminster Magistrates» Court [2007] EWHC 2785 (Admin)(05 December 2007)(blogged here), a Divisional Court of the English High Court held that only a very narrow version of the common law crime of blasphemy is compatible with Article 10, and found that Jerry Springer — The Opera was not blasphemous.

Five years ago, Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer — one of the most prominent supporters of Bibi and critics of the blasphemy laws which sentenced her to death — was assassinated by his bodyguard.

Hope I live through the weekend, after that bit of blasphemy.

In the case of blasphemy, a person is not only denying who God says He is, but mocking His character and attributes, such as unconditional love, mercy, grace, forgiveness, and justice.

A copy of a newspaper article about India's government being accused of blasphemy by its political opponents for saying some of Hinduism's most important texts are not proof of the existence of Hindu gods.

But now if we know Jesus, we know the Father, and we can receive the Holy Spirit through Jesus without risking the eternal penalty of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.

3... I saw a WOMAN sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy... 5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON the great, the MOTHER OF HARLOTS and abominations of the earth.»

This means that it's possible and even easy to accuse someone of blasphemy out of a personal vendetta.

That's why the high priest tore his robes and accused Jesus of blasphemy, because he recognized that Jesus, by quoting these OT passages to refer to Himself, that He was claiming to be God.

«If our religion of Islam comes down heavily upon commission of blasphemy, then Islam is also very tough against those who level false allegations of a crime.»

According to Njideka Agwu, spokeswoman of 31 artillery brigade of the Nigeria army, Minna, a mob killed one Methodus Emmanuel, a 24 - year - old trader based in Padongari, on Sunday, over allegations of blasphemy.

In its judgment against Qadri, the Supreme Court warned against the misuse of blasphemy charges.

Most mentions of blasphemy in the Bible are either aimed at God's own people or found in accusations levelled at Jesus himself.

So defamation of religion is not within the narrower definition of blasphemy used for 32 nations.

For 38 - odd chapters Job describes to God, in terms bordering on (and perhaps entering) the realm of blasphemy, the realities of human existence on earth.

A common law offence of blasphemy will continue to exist, though its scope is entirely unclear (the historical evolution of modern blasphemy law as described by the Law Reform Commission's 1991 Consultation Paper and Report on the Crime of Libel and by my colleague Dr Neville Cox in his magisterial Blasphemy and the Law (Edwin Mellen Press, NY, 2000)-RRB-.

Nor does it include any provision about instances of blasphemy pertaining to faiths other than Islam.

1965 Presidential Decree of Blasphemy: I could not find the original full text of this decree, however it seems to be cited in multiple places and this site offers a paper containing excepts from it.

(In 2013, four Christians were acquitted of blasphemy.)

Pakistan has asked Facebook and Twitter to help it identify Pakistanis suspected of blasphemy.

Maybe even a form of blasphemy even.

Isn't that the dead atheist guy whose throat rotted out on him in the midst of his blasphemies?

There is a time and a place to patiently bear the brunt of blasphemy, to carefully refute the errors that undergird vice, but there is also a time and place to tear our garments and respond with indignant silence.

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.

Asia Bibi's final appeal against her conviction of blasphemy will be heard by Pakistan's Supreme Court tomorrow (Thursday).

And that is exactly how Slate editor David Plotz cooked up a carefree pot of blasphemies in his recent book Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Word of the Bible.

Rimsha Masih, a Christian girl accused of blasphemy sits in helicopter after her release from jail in Rawalpindi.

Update (July 2): World Watch Monitor reports that Rimsha Masih, the teenage Christian girl who was exonerated of blasphemy charges earlier this year, and her family have relocated to Canada.

She was found guilty of blasphemy under Article 295C of Pakistan's penal code, which imposes death sentences for offenses of defamation against Muhammad.

The declaration does not make exemptions for religious freedom on behalf of blasphemy, and does not ban apostasy, said Roberts.

After the Supreme Court upheld Qadri's conviction last fall, Christians expressed tentative optimism in the face of a blasphemy boom.