What's so bad about blasphemy anyway?

Question

If you created the entire cosmos, in all it's vastness, why would you give a hoot what some insignificant, tiny little creature from an insignificant planet in the outer reaches of the Milky Way had to say anyway?

Do you encourage your kids to react badly if someone uses their name in vain?

Dosn't this make God a tad petty minded?

Answer 1

Nothing.

Anything you say is blasphemous to somebody. Since nobody has any evidence of any gods, such offense is meaningless.

Answer 2

I don't know why God takes everything a human being does personally, man. Bugs me to $hit. However, he does. Maybe because he feels we owe him something, because he's our creator (as if that's done us any good :()? Who carved every one of us, apparently, on the palm of his hand. Although most of us feel we were a genetical mistake. But THERE is the truth. He does and there is no getting away from it (King David mourned the fact that he was not able to escape God try what he might; for wherever david went, there God was!). I can understand why breaking all the commandments would be a "sin". Because by breaking his law, you are revolting against the mighty law-maker. However, why God-related words like "in heaven's name" or "i kicked the be-jesus out of him" makes him mad, i can never comprehend! Picky, is what i say. Too dam-ned picky!!

Answer 3

It's one of the more unbelievable aspects of the Mideastern monotheisms. Their god is a thin-skinned batterer who everyone has to walk gingerly around and placate constantly , flatter continuously and feed his megalomania because everything big and small pisses him off enough to burn you in hell forever. He's prepared to do horrible things to his "children" that no sane human parent would even contemplate, but the faithbots say "God is love." By those standards Idi Amin was Cupid.

As far as Wewally's comment: "Setting my children straight" implies a corrective measure, not avenging the insult by torturing them eternally in hellfire. That is not setting the kids straight. That's just vengeance carried out beyond the boundaries of insanity and it's simply monstrous, and you only fail to see that because you've been so thoroughly brainwashed.

Answer 4

Because you are cursing the one and only God who created you. Plus its is in the 10 commandments. "Thou shalt not take Gods word in vain." Also John 3:16 "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." Now why would somebody want to cures the God who created you and made everything else? Instead of cursing I think we should be rejoicing of all the stuff God has done for us. Just think about it. There are so many Awsome things he has done.

Answer 5

A valid observation. In the interest of avoiding petty arguments with zealots, I don't blaspheme. I don't see it as an act of self-restraint, given the extraordinary benefits of not having deal with those who would be shocked by it.

But I do speculate quietly about the possibility that God is every bit as arbitrary as some of the religionists say he is. It's really for my own amusement.

Answer 6

It's part of the human concept of "God" as a human father on a cosmic scale. It DOES make God look extremely petty; but you have to consider the class of mind that accepts this class of idea. primoa, for example!

It's also a way of enforcing religion. It's pretty easy to imagine how the proscriptions on "blasphemy" came about: it was a way for the priests to defend their "brand." The OT Hebrews themselves spent a lot more time "an-whoring after strange gods" than they did worshipping IHVH as was proper; hence He was conceived as a "jealous god" who would severely punish disrespect and infidelity.

Answer 7

You know, you holy rollers are always talking about "free will" when asked how your god allows horrible things to happen. Why would this god give humans the free will to blaspheme if it (meaning god) didn't want anyone to do it? god could just have easily created humans incapable of blasphemy, just as it created them incapable of breathing underwater or flying (without man-made apparatus, before someone points that out).

Answer 8

Bleshemy result in the following: it grieves, and i cannot encourage my kids to react badly if someone uses their name in vain, since they are not the only one bearing that name

Answer 9

Disrespect for other folks just plain ain't polite,God is prbably big enough to handle it in stride, but he has a good memory. Our job on earth is to bring him glory not to run him down. When your kids talk back to you, don't you set them straight.

Answer 10

~~~ moo,,,, This is the trouble with Anthropomorphizing gods. Why would such a powerful being have the jealousy and mind of a human being?

Answer 11

1 John 4:19: "As for us, we love, because he first loved us."

Matthew 10: 29-31: "Do not two sparrows sell for a coin of small value? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without YOUR Father’s [knowledge]. 30 But the very hairs of YOUR head are all numbered. 31 Therefore have no fear: YOU are worth more than many sparrows."
Blasphemy
This is the anglicized form of the Greek word bla·sphe·mi′a. The Greek term basically means injurious, defamatory, or abusive speech and was used with reference to such speech whether directed against God or against humans. (Compare Re 16:11; Mt 27:39.) The English word “blasphemy,” however, is usually restricted to irreverent or abusive speech against God and sacred things. It is thus the antithesis of words of worship directed to the Divine Being.—

In view of the name Di·a′bo·los (meaning “Devil” or “Slanderer”) given to him, it is evident that the first one guilty of blasphemy was God’s original adversary. Though his speech to Eve in Eden was veiled and subtle, it, nevertheless, portrayed the Creator as untruthful. (Ge 3:1-5) Satan has been, therefore, the prime instigator of blasphemy from then till now.—Joh 8:44-49.

Matthew 6: 26-34: "Observe intently the birds of heaven, because they do not sow seed or reap or gather into storehouses; still YOUR heavenly Father feeds them. Are YOU not worth more than they are? 27 Who of YOU by being anxious can add one cubit to his life span? 28 Also, on the matter of clothing, why are YOU anxious? Take a lesson from the lilies of the field, how they are growing; they do not toil, nor do they spin; 29 but I say to YOU that not even Sol′o·mon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these. 30 If, now, God thus clothes the vegetation of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much rather clothe YOU, YOU with little faith? 31 So never be anxious and say, ‘What are we to eat?’ or, ‘What are we to drink?’ or, ‘What are we to put on?’ 32 For all these are the things the nations are eagerly pursuing. For YOUR heavenly Father knows YOU need all these things.
33 “Keep on, then, seeking first the kingdom and his righteousness, and all these [other] things will be added to YOU. 34 So, never be anxious about the next day, for the next day will have its own anxieties. Sufficient for each day is its own badness."

Proverbs 8:23-36: "“Jehovah himself produced me as the beginning of his way, the earliest of his achievements of long ago. 23 From time indefinite I was installed, from the start, from times earlier than the earth. 24 When there were no watery deeps I was brought forth as with labor pains, when there were no springs heavily charged with water. 25 Before the mountains themselves had been settled down, ahead of the hills, I was brought forth as with labor pains, 26 when as yet he had not made the earth and the open spaces and the first part of the dust masses of the productive land. 27 When he prepared the heavens I was there; when he decreed a circle upon the face of the watery deep, 28 when he made firm the cloud masses above, when he caused the fountains of the watery deep to be strong, 29 when he set for the sea his decree that the waters themselves should not pass beyond his order, when he decreed the foundations of the earth, 30 then I came to be beside him as a master worker, and I came to be the one he was specially fond of day by day, I being glad before him all the time, 31 being glad at the productive land of his earth, and the things I was fond of were with the sons of men.

32 “And now, O sons, listen to me; yes, happy are the ones that keep my very ways. 33 Listen to discipline and become wise, and do not show any neglect. 34 Happy is the man that is listening to me by keeping awake at my doors day by day, by watching at the posts of my entrances. 35 For the one finding me will certainly find life, and gets goodwill from Jehovah. 36 But the one missing me is doing violence to his soul; all those intensely hating me are the ones that do love death.”

Notice that it Jesus says the things he was fond of were the sons of men...so it would seem that Jehovah and God love us, so why should we not love them back and treat them with the highest regard!