Saturday, November 30, 2024

Alan Robertshaw provides a brief history of blasphemy

They've often been declared dead, but laws against blasphemy haven't quite given up the ghost. Here Alan Robertshaw takes us through their history.

One interesting point is that, in recent centuries, they've been far more about keeping the peace than enforcing orthodoxy in belief. 

Unless you are Mary Whitehouse and John Smyth, of course.

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