Quinn seemed to have become one of a jaded philosophical society, a group of arcane deviates. Their raison d’etre was a kind of mystical masochism, forcing initiates toward feats of occult daredevilry – “glimpsing the...

I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.

Heresy,” by the way, simply means “choice.” It came to mean “thoughtcrime,” implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you.

Science blasphemed when tries to eliminate scarcity in economy.

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they take it for granted that the Bible is true, and that it is...

A skeptical man with a credo, ‘Seeing is believing’. One day he found something so alien and said, ‘I can’t believe what I just saw’. Then the other man with different credo, ‘Blessed are they...

There is no God and we are his prophets.

Either blasphemy is a victimless crime or its victim is powerful enough to take care of himself without any help from you.

The attitude which the man in the street unconsciously adopts towards science is capricious and varied. At one moment he scorns the scientist for a highbrow, at another anathematizes him for blasphemously undermining his religion;...

Then, what is sacrelige [sic]? If it is nothing more than a rebellion against dogma, it is eventually as meaningless as the dogma it defies, and they are both become hounds ranting in the high...

I dip my forefinger in the watery blood of your impotent mad redeemer, and write over his thorn-torn brow: The true prince of evil- the king of the slaves!

The students whipped their heads back to look at her; a blaspheming teacher was as exciting as a fight.

I used to read in books how our fathers persecuted mankind. But I never appreciated it. I did not really appreciate the infamies that have been committed in the name of religion, until I saw...

Princess Cookie’s cognitive pathways may have required a more comprehensive analysis. He knew that it was possible to employ certain progressive methods of neural interface, but he felt somewhat apprehensive about implementing them, for fear...

Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies.

Blasphemy is an epithet bestowed by superstition upon common sense.

Historically, blasphemy has always been identified with criticizing, denigrating, or marginalizing the sacred, and in Jewish and Christian tradition it’s connected with profaning the name of God, or persons such as Jesus or the Holy...

The sound of thunder awake me, and when I got up, my feet sank into muddy water up to my ankles. Mother took Buster and Helen to high ground to pray, but I stayed behind...

Suppose, however, that God did give this law to the Jews, and did tell them that whenever a man preached a heresy, or proposed to worship any other God that they should kill him; and...

Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in...

The sanctification of political power by Christianity is blasphemy; it is the negation of Christianity.

Pounce had it easier than any of us. No one noticed a black cat in the street. He stopped here and there to sniff aught of interest. Wherever our Rat stopped, Pounce was there, close...

I’m very depressed how in this country you can be told “That’s offensive” as though those two words constitute an argument.

I don’t think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.

That in the captain’s but a choleric word,Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

…The Presidential election has given me less anxiety than I myself could have imagined. The next administration will be a troublesome one, to whomsoever it falls, and our John has been too much worn to...

A lot of people come up here and they thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. He didn’t help me...

We think ourselves possessed, or at least we boast that we are so, of liberty of conscience on all subjects and of the right of free inquiry and private judgment in all cases, and yet...

Blasphemy is the crime of not taking someone’s beliefs as seriously as they do.

To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.