We missed Blasphemy Day International!

I came across this great contribution to the Day!

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Cool! This organisation seems

Cool! This organisation seems to have lots of followers worldwide (on Facebook alone 3343 fans for the page and  10641 members of the group).

We need a blasphemous twitter…

And to the people who cannot take a good blasphemy, as Reinhold Aman would put it: "Der Teufel soll diese gottverfluchten Schweinehunde holen!"

"I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste." - Marcel Duchamp

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I disremembered how to embed pix...

...so I attached that blasphemous 'image' instead.  However, not being an atheist zealot, I'd prefer to quote an online buddy (whose site pointed me to the image in the first place) who says it better than me:

Not really my day

Yesterday, 30th September, was International Blasphemy Day. A bit of a quandary, that. I mean, while I have no truck with gods, godesses and 'sacred' books, I also don't go around seeking out altars to spit on. Besides, I don't really know how the term has any relevance to me, a non-believer.

The dictionary (Oxford Compact) comes up with:

noun (pl. blasphemies) irreverent talk about God or sacred things.

Well, I'm hardly going to be 'reverent' about the non-existent — that would be as pointless as theology! Webster's has an additional meaning: "the act of claiming the attributes of deity". Can you see me doing that? And since I don't consider any book as 'sacred', well, I just don't see how I can commit 'blasphemy'. It has been suggested that the main thrust is to piss off the pious, which, while entertaining, is hardly constructive. So I didn't do anthing outrageous at all…

The one thing I would support is the campaign in the Republc of Ireland, where the ultimate Irish joke has them instituting a beefed up blasphemy law, just after we successfully concluded a long drawn-out campaign to abolish ours. The problem is, they have a written constitution, which was framed when the Church had the country firmly in its palsied grasp, and it apparently demands such a law.

Meanwhile, MediaWatchWatch has this blasphemous illustration, with something for everybody!

"You mean my whole fallacy’s wrong?"
Marshall McLuhan