Ireland now has a "Blasphemy" law...

[gallow737]

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Yes, Ireland. The country who up until the mid 90's outlawed divorce, now has a law that says if you tell people you don't believe in God you can get fined up to $35,000.

Stay classy, Ireland

[Expletive]

these atheist are such dumb bastards; here it is you have crazy as fuck supposed Christians, protestants and Catholics, wiping each other out over who the fuck cares, and you Irish atheist want to go and fuck with these group of sociopaths who believe in brotherly love so much, they kill each other on sight--- to tell them that jesus isn't the son of god?




Somebody wants grenade up the ass. If you ask me, the government in Ireland saved their asses, i'm very sure those theist was planning a fatwa on their asses and some one in government decided to levy this awesome law to save their bacon.

[ThatHaole]

[spiritwolf_1978]

I think that anyone that buys into any form of religion has to take a much deeper look at life and the space around us and them. The audacity of any human being claiming to possess the knowledge of our origins, where we came from, and just exactly what created us may just be suffering from a form of psychosis. Why over time have people fallen prey to these fairy tale ideas?
Now governments are protecting these lunatics? Profiting from whatever they can is more like it.

[MillyMc]

well ill be goddammed.

you ever notice how crazy christians act a lot like crazy muslims?

[Carlos Spicy Wiener]

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I would be so fucked.

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if you hadn't noticed, the protestants kill the catholics and vice versa, even though they've stopped doing so outright for sometime now, they can still get it on whenever the need arises (usually during funerals).


So they're fucking insane, they're extremist even though they're not muslims, it's partly why al qaeda doesn't wanna fuck with the pope outright; the pope is a lot like muhammad except for the fact that he fucks lil boys and not lil girls, but they're almost virtually the same person. fuck with the pope, and i'm moving to mars to avoid the resulting zionist conflagration.

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Well that's not very nice. That'll be $35,000 please

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It wasn't done in an offense way, honestly, I was simply making a point

[step234]

Typically the spin and the big headlines have gotten in the way of the actualy story

First of all it is NOT a new law- blasphemy has always been illegal in the Rep. of Ireland (since the first constitution in 1937), back then it was used to protect all forms of Christianity (protestant, catholic etc). This was actually progressive at the time as it showed that protestants would be as protected in the republic as catholics (given all the sectarian violence which preceded the independance of Ireland) and the fear that Northen Irish protestants had of the Republic

This law pretty much went unnoticed for decades as nobody ever used it.

The problems arose when atheists recently wanted it removed from the constituion. Now that in itself is not a bad thing but in Ireland we have to have a national referendum in order to change any law in the constitution. Our lawmakers/ministers are not allowed to change any part of the constitution without the vote of the people (A very democratic view Im sure you'll agree). They are however allowed to refom laws- i.e. update them.

So the Minister for Justice had 2 options; spend millions on a referendum for a law that most Irish people had never heard of, let alone ever used, or reform the law.

In the current financial climate and based on the fact that nobody uses this law it was deemed better to simply reform it.

A person must publish material which has the express intent of causing outrage and offense to a religion and get that reaction- thats act + reaction + intent- which is almost impossible to prove.

Therefore the Irish government has simply updated the law to include all religions and worded it in such a way that it is practically impossible to convict somebody of it.


So its basically a backdoor way to neutralize the law without the bother and expense of a national referendum


Secondly - the catholic vs protestant killing spree over the last 60 years has pretty much NOTHING to do with religion, it was just a handy way of declaring which side you were on

Stay classy Headline swallowing reactionaries