Please define your definition of blasphemy.?

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This question was asked by someone earlier, I would like to know what would constitute blasphemy? Who would determine if something was or was not?

"Will you support a Bill that would require blasphemy against GOD in movies to require an X rating ?
As for myself I find it worse than any porn material, a sin that can be forgiven, but in using GOD's name in vain one will not be held blameless so why is it permitted. For those that scream freedom of speech, there is still that freedom, restricted in a rating system just like porn, so why not support such a Bill ?
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Answer 1

I agree with the definition of blasphemy by Webster's dictionary, i.e.: "The act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God." However, I would not support a bill to require such profanity to result in an X rating in movies. If God punishes the sinner for using his name in vain then that is the province of God, not society and not the movie industry. Most people, including myself, will occasionally use the expression "God dammit" and similar expressions. Actually in our culture that would be considered one of the most mild instances of profanity. I berate myself for cussing, but I do not believe the government has any role in punishing or restricting such expressions. I do believe in freedom of speech, even though I hate hearing strong profanity in public or in the media. If our government starts controlling what can and cannot be said, where will it stop? Eventually we might be stoned to death or imprisoned for 20 years for one instance of using God's name in vain. A cornerstone of our democracy is the separation of church and state and most Americans support that concept. Otherwise the church would soon be controlling our very lives in even minute aspects. We would become like Iran or Iraq, a brutal theistic society.

Answer 2

It is impossible to define blasphemy in anything approaching a universal rule for the simple reason that religious views are so diverse. What's blasphemous to one religion is gospel in another. Whose definition would we use? Should blaspheming _anyone's_ god be a crime? If not, then you'll have gov't favoring one religion over another, and that's a big no-no, legally, historically and morally.

So what blasphemy comes down to is basically just giving offense to one's religion. And yes, the right to speak offensive things is very much a free speech issue. America's Founding Fathers knew very well the dangers of having gov't in the business of enforcing religious edicts, having earlier fled from Europe where both gov't and religion corrupted one another, leading inevitably to tyranny and a lack of religious freedom.

Like the first answerer said with his Mill quote, leave "punishment" for religious "crimes" up to god or the church. Otherwise, you may unwittingly find yourself at the losing end of a struggle against a gov't that suddenly has come to find _your_ views as blasphemous.

Answer 3

Okay, I see that you acknowledge that taking God's name in vain is a sin -- you are correct, not many people know that it is also a sin. Blasphemy is a concept that has been widely discussed in my home, questioning what coins blasphemy to the extent that it cannot be forgiven as discussed in the Bible. I have asked ministers what constitutes a sin that cannot be forgiven that is blasphemous in nature? They have said the same, To continue in a sin, knowing that you are sinning, yet not turning from that sin, continuing in the heat of it till the day of your death or till God completely gives you over to it and you are considered a reprobate. Yet, what sin would that be? If I was a pathological liar, and knew it was wrong and a sin to lie, and never stopped... Would that be equivalent with a murderer who never stopped killing and had extensive religious heritage?? Personally, I believe that Blasphemy is not only committing a sin eternally, but placing yourself above God, Coherently believing he cannot stop you from committing the unpardonable sin, sort of invincibility attribute that you can hide your sins from him, maybe men on earth would not notice or the judicial system. To effectively do something that is unpardonable would require taking on the Devil (spiritually) and using him to commit the sins, and dying with that devil in you and stand before God with a devil(s) spirit -- God cannot look upon evil, nor would he allow a devil into heaven, so he does not pardon your sin. All Blasphemers will be in a lake of fire and brimstone, whether they burn there, or here on earth.

Answer 4

I for one will support a Bill that penalizes a person for blasphemy, a form of disrespect for God, whether Christians, Jews or Muslims. The problem is there's a separation between the Church and State, which makes the passage of this bill or law not possible. In that arrangement, the state cannot invoke ecclesiastical provisions, which are absent, in its enforcement of the constitution.

Answer 5

that's what became into taught to me early in life...."because of the fact that Jesus is yet a veiled emissary of the Son of guy on the earth, blasphemies against him could nicely be forgiven. Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit heavily isn't forgiven, because of the fact it may contain rejection of the very action of God which forgives. Luke seems to comprehend the unpardonable sin as a failure to hearken to the Holy Spirit interior the hour of trial. it relatively is interior the challenge of the church that the potential of the Spirit to save or to sentence is operative." I hate to quote yet that's what I even have been taught and it relatively is cautioned greater eloquently than i ought to declare it.

Answer 6

In the words of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens (I think he said this): "I cannot tell you what pornography is but I know it when I see it".

That said, this nation does not need any further clarifications on what language is, or is not. What movies, songs, plays, etc., are good, bad, sexual, etc. Is the USA really full of a bunch of complete idiots who cannot think for themselves or make choices without govt interevention? We do not need more laws, rules, legislation, whatever, to tell us how to lead our lives.

We are all not idiots and we do not need any more govt intrusion into our lives. Figure things out for yourself.

Answer 7

Injustices to the gods are the concern of the gods = John Stuart Mill

Answer 8

blasphemy isn't universal and therefore cannot be used in a rating system. personally, i don't think that there is anything blasphemous because i don't believe in organized religion. even people who say things directly antagonizing god don't bother me. they are entitled to their opinion and i to mine. you don't have to be over 18 to have an opinion about spirituality.

Answer 9

blasphemy |ˈblasfəmē| noun ( pl. -mies) the act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about God or sacred things; profane talk : he was detained on charges of blasphemy | screaming incomprehensible blasphemies. ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French, via ecclesiastical Latin from Greek blasphēmia ‘slander, blasphemy.’

I don't use God's name in vain nor do I use it unless it in good context... It should not be said unless talking about Him... in a good way

Answer 10

It isn't the government's job to tell us what is decent. Decency is a point of view. Down with the FCC.