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MineralMan

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Sat Oct 28, 2017, 11:28 AM Oct 2017

Five States in the United States Still Have Blasphemy Laws on Books [View all]

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/penny-starr/state-dept-official-5-states-us-still-have-blasphemy-laws-books

While nobody any longer prosecutes people in our nation for blasphemy, that's a 20th century innovation. Anti-blasphemy laws were once common here, and are still in place in much of the world. So, when people are executed for blasphemy in some other country, we should be too quick to gloat about our own more enlightened approach here.

Here's an old law from pre-revolutionary Massachusetts:



Many will be surprised to learn just how common such criminal laws against blasphemy are and have been. There's a pretty good Wikipedia article that provides some information on the subject at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law

Are we now too enlightened here? What would the dominionist Christians do if they had control over our government? Do you think we're really safe?

Think about it.
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