Blasphemy Sentence Examples

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  • He also had committed blasphemy by threatening the uniqueness of God's presence.

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  • To say that man is precisely what God made him to be is sheer blasphemy.

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  • It was blasphemy against any religion, including pagan religions.

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  • Laughter and singing in particular seemed to her like a blasphemy, in face of her sorrow.

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  • Blasphemy is punished by imprisonment.

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  • A few years after the establishment of the "Abode of Love," a peculiarly gross scandal, in which Prince and one of his female followers were involved, led to the secession of some of his most faithful friends, who were unable any longer to endure what they regarded as the amazing mixture of blasphemy and immorality offered for their acceptance.

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  • It was blasphemy against the spirit, or the unpardonable sin, a sin so awesomely bad that it can not be forgiven.

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  • We make them doubt that they are children of God, and this must be nearly the ultimate blasphemy.

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  • The charge of blasphemy was founded on certain statements in a book published by him in 1553, entitled Christianismi Restitutio, in which he animadverted on the Catholic doctrine of the Trinity, and advanced sentiments strongly savouring of Pantheism.

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  • Was he brought up on blasphemy charges?

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  • In spite of the rejection of the ascetic attitude of the Gnostics, as a blasphemy against the Creator, a part of this ascetic principle became at a later date dominant throughout all Christendom.

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  • The common law of England treats blasphemy as an indictable offence.

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  • In Austria, whoever commits blasphemy by speech or writing is liable to imprisonment for any term from six months up to ten years, according to the seriousness of the offence.

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  • Here Browne distinguishes acceptance of the covenant relation with God (religion) and the forming or " planting " of churches on the basis of God's covenant (with its laws of government), from the enforcing of the covenant voluntarily accepted, whether by church-excommunication or by civil penalties - the latter only in cases of flagrant impiety, such as idolatry, blasphemy or Sabbath-breaking.

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  • He was accused of blasphemy to the ecclesiastical authorities and of insurrection to the civil rulers.

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  • In 1653 he was imprisoned for blasphemy, and twice (1660 and 1670) his own followers temporarily repudiated him.

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  • Several imprisonments, including that of George Fox at Derby in 1650-1651, were brought about under the Blasphemy Act of 1650, which inflicted penalties on any one who asserted himself to be very God or equal with God, a charge to which the Friends were peculiarly liable owing to their doctrine of perfection.

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  • Convicted of wearing his hat while a religious procession was passing - as well as of blasphemy - he was accused as well of having mutilated a crucifix standing on the town bridge.

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  • I fail to see the blasphemy in using cola and burgers.

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  • These claims not only seemed like plain blasphemy but also quite nonsensical.

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  • Some wonder what these verses actually mean and some wonder if they have committed this unforgivable sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.

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  • Milbourn (1867) the defendant had broken his contract to let a lecture-room to the plaintiff, on discovering that the intended lectures were to maintain that "the character of Christ is defective, and his teaching misleading, and that the Bible is no more inspired than any other book," and the court of exchequer held that the publication of such doctrine was blasphemy, and the contract therefore illegal.

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  • His first tractate (1535, first printed 1627) is directed against the "horrible and gross blasphemy of John of Leiden" - though the genuineness of this tract has been doubted.

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  • In 1650 he was imprisoned for about a year at Derby on a charge of blasphemy.

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  • On the 17th of October it was ordered that the committee to which the bill was referred " should be empowered to receive information touching such books as tend to atheism, blasphemy and profaneness, or against the essence and attributes of God, and in particular the book published in the name of one White, 1 and the book of Mr Hobbes called the Leviathan, and to report the matter with their opinion to the House."

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  • Thereupon He was condemned to death for manifest blasphemy, and a scene of cruel mockery followed.

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  • The blasphemy case had lasted almost exactly half of its brief life.

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  • Why, you would not dare to cross the threshold with such blasphemy in your soul!

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  • As shown above, the United Kingdom has an old, mostly disused blasphemy law which is rarely evoked.

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  • The Content Board also noted that it was not within Ofcom's remit to consider whether the crime of blasphemy had been committed.

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  • Sometimes his commands are merely presumptuous; sometimes as when, for example, he preaches crusades against Christians for purely secular reasonsthey are the most horrible form of blasphemy.

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  • In his eyes it was blasphemy when he heard that Alexander proclaimed in public that " as God is eternal, so is his Son, - when the Father, then the Son, - the Son is present in God without birth (ayevviircos), ever-begotten (aecyev'is), an unbegotten-begotten (ay Evvnroyev17s)."

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  • It was considered an act of blasphemy for a layman to pronounce the Tetragrammaton.

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  • On the death of King Frederick, Tausen, at the instance of Ronne, was, at the Herredag of 1533, convicted of blasphemy and condemned to expulsion from the diocese of Sjaelland, whereupon the mob rose in arms against the bishop, who would have been murdered but for the courageous intervention of Tausen, who conducted him home in safety.

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  • In 1677 Muggleton was tried at the Old Bailey, convicted of blasphemy, and fined Soo.

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  • The event is not an extremely cost-effective way to raise funds for CV's blasphemy prosecution against the BBC.

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  • They asked a local prosecutor to file suit under the country's blasphemy law.

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  • But publications were still subject to the laws of the land regarding sedition, blasphemy, obscenity and libel.

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  • An act of 1697-1698, commonly called the Blasphemy Act, enacts that if any person, educated in or having made profession of the Christian religion, should by writing, preaching, teaching or advised speaking, deny any one of the Persons of the Holy Trinity to be God, or should assert or maintain that there are more gods than one, or should deny the Christian religion to be true, or the Holy Scriptures to be of divine authority, he should, upon the first offence, be rendered incapable of holding any office or place of trust, and for the second incapable of bringing any action, of being guardian or executor, or of taking a legacy or deed of gift, and should suffer three years' imprisonment without bail.

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  • Frederick, accused of heresy, blasphemy and other crimes, called upon all kings and princes to unite against the pope, who on his side made vigorous efforts to arouse opposition in Germany, where his emissaries, a crowd of wandering friars, were actively preaching rebellion.

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  • Indeed, ' transmutation of species ' was virtually a blasphemy.

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  • The law against blasphemy has practically ceased to be put in active operation.

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  • In France, blasphemy (which included, also, speaking against the Holy Virgin and the saints, denying one's faith, or speaking with impiety of holy things) was from very early times punished with great severity.

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  • In Germany, the punishment for blasphemy is imprisonment varying from one day to three years, according to the gravity of the offence.

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  • By the law of Scotland, as it originally stood, the punishment of blasphemy was death, but by an act of 1825, amended in 1837, blasphemy was made punishable by fine or imprisonment or both.

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  • To constitute the offence, the blasphemy must be uttered in public, be offensive in character, and have wounded the religious susceptibilities of some other person.

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  • Either Jesus is the son of God or he was speaking blasphemy.

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  • Is not this a great blasphemy making God a liar?

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