One was the requirement for initiates to the order to tread on and deface an image of Jesus Christ. This was not as the inquisition thought an act of blasphemy, but the Sufi religious practice of defiling images of God. In doing so the initiate learnt that the worship of God was not ...
Sodomy is an example of a private act that does not harm the actors or others, but has been prohibited on the basis of moral arguments. Sodomy laws were not originally created to regulate homosexual sex; in fact, they were originally applied to almost all sexual activity outside of marital...
an example of censorship as it is normally understood, but it is relevant to see it in terms of censorship, to the extent that the legal action is based on the content of the material. If a woman is assaulted or raped in the course of making a pornographic film, there is already a ...
I will indeed maintain that a broad conception of ‘blasphemy’ is manifested in laws that forbid actions that are not associated with a defamation of the Christian God or another deity. To that end, I will first, in Section “The Sacred and the Secular”, inquire into the idea of the ...
Your merchant, if he was a man of substance, forgot his merchandise, swore that chaffering was more indelicate than blasphemy and curled his beard after the new fashion, and became a courtier. Where his father had spent anxious days with cargo tally and ship-master, the son wasted hours ...
, features charges of hot dog blasphemy. Sara Lee, the makers of Ball Park Franks, and Kraft, the friendly folks bringing you the venerable Oscar Mayer wiener, both claim the other has disparaged its products in violation of federal and state law.Seriously though, we all read Upton Sinclair...
rake start and then browse to http://localhost:9393 TODO Add in a test suite (what? blasphemy!) Have an idea of read/unread items Move polling to the server, do not depend on browser being open Monitor Hacker News comments in addition to stories Ignore / Save (favorite?) eventsAbout...
It provides context by using two historical cases (the use of blasphemy law in 1901; an immigration case from 1965) as a means of deducing popular opinion about atheists, before shifting to the contemporary with an example of ethnographic research in this area. This is followed by a ...
13 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. 2 And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet ...
13. The law of blasphemy17. Of murder18. Of damage23. The blasphemer is stonedStudy Bible Book ◦ Chapter You are also to take fine flourFine flour was a high-quality, finely ground wheat flour, indicating the offering's purity and value. In ancient Israel, fine flour was a staple ...