A CAMPAIGN to make September 30, 2009, an international Blasphemy Day has just been launched on the social networking site Facebook.
Blasphemy Day International seeks to establish September 30th as a national day to:
Promote free speech and stand up in a show of solidarity for the freedom to mock and insult religion without fear of murder, violence, and reprisal. It is the obligation of the world’s nations to safeguard dissent and the dissenters, not to side with the brutal interests of thugs who demand ‘respect’ for their beliefs (ie, immunity to being criticized or mocked or they threaten violence).
So if you support free speech, and the rights of those who disagree with religious views to voice their opinions peacefully, support our group and join the cause!
Said Mediawatchwatch:
The numbers are small because the Facebook group is only a couple of weeks old. But it would be great to see this take off.
Blasphemy is a joyous, funny, socially progressive, and profoundly moral act. It deserves its own day. Join the group. Spread the word.
Meanwhile, we learn that the most “blasphemous” of all British comedies, Monty Python’s Life of Brian, is at last to be screened at Aberystwyth in Wales, where it has been banned for 30 years.
Two of the stars of the classic film -Terry Jones and Michael Palin – will join Aberystwyth mayor Sue Jones-Davis, who also starred in the 1979 film, at a charity showing on March 28.
Long before becoming mayor, she played Brian’s girlfriend in the movie.
But, according to the BBC, she pledged to fight for the film to be shown when she found it had not been seen in the mid Wales town since.
The Life of Brian team
In 1979, opponents claimed Life of Brian made fun of Jesus, and they accused the Python team of blasphemy with its story about a Jewish man who was mistaken for the messiah and then crucified. Some religious groups picketed cinemas which screened the film, and it is understood that a committee made up of church leaders in Aberystwyth recommended a ban in 1979. Even today some churchgoers in the seaside resort are still against the film being shown.
Last July, Ms Jones-Davies said she was amazed a town like hers still barred a movie now regarded as a comedy classic.
But Ms Jones-Davies said she had been assured there was nothing standing in the way of showing Life of Brian in Aberystwyth in 2009.
I talked to officials at the town council to check if it was appropriate to show the film and we thought, why not, the proceeds are going to charity. I then asked Terry if he would like to come to the screening and he said, ‘shall I ask Michael?’. I said yes and then Michael agreed.
The two Pythons and the mayor will also hold a question and answer session with fans following a champagne reception and the film.
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March 1st, 2009 at 12:17 pm
A certain evangelist will cream himself at this news.* Methinks a panting, contradiction-riddled press release about Persecuu-SHUN is soon to hit editor’s inboxes.
*Under Section 666 of the I’m Alright, Jack charter, I am not legally liable for any loss of appetite, libido or sanity caused by this remark.
March 1st, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Stuart-
Damn! I always forget about Section 666. Just ignore the process server.
March 1st, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Of course, this is free speech in action – if you believe in free speech why delete my posts?
March 1st, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Bob
I thought you Christians were supposed to have the gift of glossolalia.
So far I’ve only seen palilalia.
March 1st, 2009 at 2:45 pm
You are being deleted, Bob, because you insist on using this blog to spread your evangelical filth. You have been warned about this before, yet you persist in continuing to abuse gay people and others. This will not be tolerated. Abuse is not free speech. Go away, you infantile wanker and play on someone else’s blog.
March 1st, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Urmensch
Bob will continue to repeat his dogma until (he hopes) we crack. I’d be more inclined to listen if he said “You don’t know the power of the Dark Side!”
I’m surprised he’s contributing to these pages on a Sunday. Thought he’d either be looking up a vicar’s skirt or having lunch with Big Andrew.
March 1st, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Barry: You should warn the dirty little yellow coward who hides behind pseudonyms like “Bob” and “Max” that if he continues to post proof of his psychosis to a site designed for the educated, you will publish his real name and address. Does he need to prove over and over that godworship is a form of insanity? Does he seriously believe he can convert the educated to ignorance? Does he believe that persons who know beyond dispute that the earth is round can be persuaded that a book endorsing a flat earth and featuring a talking snake and a talking donkey is nonfiction? Does he think the educated are as insane, stupid, gutless and unteachable as he is? Just because he is so terrified of the permanence of death that he needs an afterlife belief to get him through the day without having to be institutionalized and diapered, does he think persons who are NOT godphuqt are also pathological cowards? Surely there are laws making cyberstalking a criminal offence? He has been instructed to stay away. If he cannot conform to a reasonable demand that he cease and desist, he should be prepared to accept the consequences.
March 1st, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Bob: …”I do not hate them but simply point out what the Bible teaches – why is this a problem to someone who believes in free speech…” BECAUSE IT’S LIKE GRAFFITI, ONCE READ, IT’S BORING!!!
And you go on and on, and on, and on, and on with the same old saw. Bugger off back to Coventry, TWAT!
Guys, if this appeared less than polite, I apologise.
March 1st, 2009 at 4:51 pm
I wouldn’t worry about impoliteness Newspaniard.
When you’re repeatedly being told how misguided you are for not being xian, and that you are a deviant for not f***ing Bob’s way, it’s bound to wear you down eventually.
I wonder if Bob looks like a comedy vicar such as Dick Emery, Mike Yarwood or Derek Nimmo?
March 1st, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Newspaniard,
I have to disagree, surely you mean bugger off back to Broadstairs in Kent, Bob Hutton!
March 1st, 2009 at 7:32 pm
http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/archives/1778
He bangs on about free speech here.
http://www.jonworth.eu/in-your-face-atheism/
is this a pic of him?
http://www.sja.org.uk/sja/abou.....nours.aspx
Good shout Wurble.
Used your info to do a bit of googling.
he describes himself here as an evangelist
http://www.spectator.co.uk/fai.....ptic.thtml
prayer guide
http://www.oamission.com/OAM_p....._Jan09.pdf
blogging here
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t.....538064.ece
this him on the parish council?
http://wwwabd.westwitteringpar.....page_id=12
Getting tedious now, think I’ll leave it.
March 1st, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Well done Wurble!
Using your info I googled “Bob Hutton” and found him on various xian websites and blogs. He is also on his parish council. Ask for images and a pic of a “Bob Hutton” pops up on the St John Ambulance website.
Bigtime tambourine thrasher is Bob.
March 1st, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Not sure that that picture is of him as here he is described as a ‘junior member’ (And can somebody please tell me what a ‘secular bookshop’ is?)
http://www.fundamentalpreachin.....-1045.html
March 1st, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Stuart, junior member just means he’s only made a few posts on that forum.
He also plagues the bbc religious discussion site, tediously banging on and on.
March 1st, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Alun,
If that is him in the photo re St Johns Ambulance Service, it also says he’s Chairman of West Wittering Parish Council. This could explain a lot. He’s a member of the Wittering council. Someone needs to explain to him that it’s a place name not a description of what he has to do with his life! Maybe everyone on the Wittering council is like him though.
Big Andrew,
It also says on there that he is a special constable. That could make for an interesting first date for you both if you ask him nicely to come round in his uniform and take down your particulars. Then you can find out just how special he is!!!
March 1st, 2009 at 9:50 pm
I think It’s disgusting the way Atheists continue to mock Christianity in this way.
March 1st, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Sorry to piss on your chips guys, but the Bob that we all know and love is just a humble book keeper from Kent.
Not a St John’s pseudoparamedic, not a special(needs) constable, and nothing to do with Wittering, except in the context of fucking wittering on about his bloody imaginary friend.
And Talitha…please say it aint so!
March 1st, 2009 at 11:55 pm
Bob,
Why don’t you start your own blog? Then you can proclaim your hatred for gay people all you want without anybody deleting what you print.
But that would be too easy, wouldn’t it. I sense you like being a pain in the arses of others then playing the martyr when they tell you to cheese off. You’re much like this guy.
March 1st, 2009 at 11:58 pm
Talitha,
Considering the disgusting garbage you spew you have no right to be offended by anything we say. Piss off you hateful twat.
March 2nd, 2009 at 7:11 am
Talitha, thanks for the absolutely hilarious post! it was the best laugh I had all day…you know that laugh you get when you watch a spoiled brat throwing itself down on the floor, scweaming and scweaming cos someone took its ice cream away and then pushed it back in its face? That kind of hilarious laugh…
You poor precious ickle darling, did someone mock you; everyone say ahh…
March 2nd, 2009 at 10:17 am
Bob, you remind me of the kind of parents who slap their kids around and call them worthless and stupid to ‘toughen them up’, saying ‘its for your own good’.
It might make you angry/sad to think people of the same sex writhing naked together, but they have their own bodies and they can do what ever the hell they like with them. It’s none of your effing beeswax. Just get over yourself!
March 2nd, 2009 at 10:54 am
Buffy, I’m not familiar with the term “Twat”.
I can only imagine It’s an Atheist term for welcome.
Thank you and Bless you.
I think at this point I should join hands with Bob in Prayer and thank Jesus for guiding us to your Website.
March 2nd, 2009 at 11:11 am
Talitha. Why don’t you invite Bob over to Freehold, Iowa? You can pray to Jebus together.
March 2nd, 2009 at 12:25 pm
So, let me get this straight, God loves you, but if you don’t do what he says he’ll send you to hell to have you bitch slapped for ever and ever?
Sounds really loving.
This is what I don’t get, you say God loves you, he only wants the best etc. so why can’t he just accept a person’s sexuality?
Secondly, with war, poverty, economic depression, greed, rape, murder, children being kidnapped, slavery and torture happening around the world as I type, surely these are more pressing priorities for God to be dealing with rather than what shape of genitalia one prefers?
He seems to remind me of Robert Mugabe, happily sitting on his throne at the beck and call of his followers, pretending to love his people, whilst all around him people starve to death. Oh, and punishing those who point this out.
Even if he did exist, he sounds both incomptetant and draconian, and not worthy of the worship of millions.
Oh Christ what’s the point?
Life’s too short, let him ramble and go on. I feel like my life force is slipping away.
March 2nd, 2009 at 12:46 pm
And there you have it! A question that Bob has no answer to, didn’t take long did it?
Honestly Bob, answers like that make you look even more stupid than I gave you credit for. I’m embarrassed for you.
March 2nd, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Talitha,
Perhaps you should join hands with Bob and pray for a conscience and a heart. Then hold your breath until god gives them to you.
March 2nd, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Talitha,
you will have poor bob convinced that he has an ally here!
March 2nd, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Barry, you deleted one of Bob’s posts, presumbly due to his breathtaking inanity, but left my reply sort of hanging in the air after it had gone. If you delete one of my posts because it was in reply to a deleted one of his, I will totally understand and I promise not to come back with any hurt comments.
March 2nd, 2009 at 7:29 pm
Hey Stonyground,
Dont sweat it. One of my posts has left me looking like im talking to myself as well, but unlike Bob, the person we were talking to once existed even if he has been deleted which is more than can be said for his ‘friend’ who only ever existed in his imagination.
March 2nd, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Sorry about that, Stonyground, but I have asked folks not to respond to the cretin as I will be deleting his comments as a matter of routine.
March 2nd, 2009 at 9:04 pm
Ok I’ll try to take that on board, its just that he is such an easy target it can be hard to resist sometimes.
March 2nd, 2009 at 9:41 pm
Nice one Wurble!!
As far as Bob is concerned, I’ve been ignoring him anyway. I thought we were all going to do that?
March 2nd, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Saint Bob, the pseudo-martyr. Patron saint of trolls.
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:21 am
“Hmm, quite the bush you had there Ms Mayor.”
March 3rd, 2009 at 12:27 am
And let’s not forget, Talitha. I see her and Bob, both holding hands, and skipping through a field of flowers singing, “Jesus loves me so! because the bible told me so!’
They fall into a heap together to the ground, rolling and laughing, till Bob undresses her to find….NOOOOO! Off to Hell we go…because the Bible told me so…
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Free speech? Try getting an atheist sympathetic comment on Thought for the Day. The twat who runs that would give Stalin a run for his money: “I have decided, this is only available to believers. So bugger off and don’t bother me again.”
March 16th, 2009 at 3:07 am
Here’s my rebuttal to your demonic beliefs:
http://dsfalar.wordpress.com/2.....er-30-too/