- Gabriele Amorth
Fr. Gabriele Amorth (born May 1, 1925) is an Italian Roman Catholic priest and the senior exorcist of Vatican City. Amorth was born in Modena, Italy in 1925. He was ordained a Roman Catholic Priest in 1954 and became an official Vatican exorcist in June 1986 under the tutelage of Father Candido Amantini. He is a member of the Society of St. Paul, the Congregation founded by James Alberione in 1914. - Robert G. Ingersoll
Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll (August 11 1833 - July 21 1899) was a Civil War veteran, American political leader and orator during the Golden Age of Freethought, noted for his broad range of culture and his defense of agnosticism. - Younus Shaikh
Dr. Younus Shaikh is a Pakistani medical doctor, human rights activist, rationalist and free-thinker. In August 2001 he was imprisoned in Pakistan under sentence of death for blasphemy. Dr Shaikh was held in the Central Gaol in Rawalpindi pending the appeals to the High Court but there was no agreement for the appeal. In July 2002 the case was referred to a referee judge. - Thomas Aikenhead
Thomas Aikenhead (c. 1678 - 8 January, 1697) was a Scottish student from Edinburgh, who was prosecuted and executed on a charge of blasphemy. Aikenhead was indicted in December 1696. The indictment read: <blockquote>"That ... the prisoner had repeatedly maintained, in conversation, that theology was a rhapsody of ill-invented nonsense, patched up partly of the moral doctrines of philosophers, … - Abner Kneeland
Abner Kneeland (April 7, 1774 - August 27, 1844) was an American evangelist and theologian who advocated many views, religious and social, which were considered extremely radical for his day. Due to his very public stance on these issues, Kneeland became the last man jailed in the United States for blasphemy. - Gerhard Haderer
Gerhard Haderer (born 1951, Leonding, Austria) is an Austrian cartoonist and caricturist. His book "Das Leben des Jesus" ("The Life of Jesus"), a satire in which Jesus is portrayed as an incense-addicted hippy, was banned in Greece in 2005 for blasphemy, and Haderer received a suspended six-month jail sentence. However, the ban and sentence were reversed on appeal. - John William Gott
John William Gott was the last person in Britain to be sent to prison for blasphemy. A trouser salesman from Bradford, he led the Freethought Socialist League. In 1911, Gott was sentenced to four months in jail for publishing attacks on Christianity. Further punishment followed in 1916, 1917 and 1918. He was tried again for blasphemy at the Old Bailey in London in 1921, found guilty and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. - George William Foote
George William Foote (11 January, 1850 - 17 October, 1915) was a secularist and journal editor. He was born in Plymouth, England and brought up in the Anglican tradition. He moved to London in 1868, where he became involved with the secularism, freethought and republicanism, joining the Young Men's Secular Association, the National Secular Society, and contributing to Charles Bradlaugh's "National Reformer". - Perfectus
Saint Perfectus (Santo Perfecto) was one of the Martyrs of Córdoba whose martyrdom was recorded by Saint Eulogius in the "Memoriale sanctorum". He was born in Córdoba, Spain when the area was under the control of the Moors (the Umayyad Caliphate). Perfecto was a monk and ordained priest. He served at the basilica of St. Acisclus in Córdoba. Christians were tolerated in the area, but not uniformly. - Salah Choudhury
Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury is editor of the controversial Bangladeshi tabloid "The Weekly Blitz". A devout Muslim, Choudhury opened a branch of the Israel-based International Forum for Literature and Culture of Peace. He wrote about the rise of al-Qaeda in Bangladesh and has written articles against anti-Israeli and Judeophobic attitudes in Muslim-majority countries. Choudhury is an Advisory Board Member of the Islam-Israel Fellowship, … - Paul King
Paul King (born January 9 1948, Dagenham, Essex, UK), was a member of Mungo Jerry between 1970 and 1972. He contributed occasional lead vocals, and played acoustic guitar (6 and 12 string), banjo, harmonica, kazoo and jug. His songs on the first Mungo Jerry album and on the early maxi-singles were generally more folksy and lighter in style than those of group leader Ray Dorset, and he was frustrated when his own songs were constantly rejected for subsequent albums. - George Holyoake
George Jacob Holyoake (April 13, 1817 - January 22, 1906), English secularist and co-operator, was born in Birmingham, England. At an early age he became an Owenite lecturer, and in 1841 was the last person convicted for blasphemy in a public lecture, though this had no theological character and the incriminating words were merely a reply to a question addressed to him from the body of the meeting. - Gohar Shahi
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi was a Pakistani author, spiritual leader and founder of the spiritual movement Anjuman Serfroshan-e-Islam. He was born in the Indian sub-continent, in a small village of Gohar Shah in the district of Rawalpindi. Shahi's teachings have been condemned by Muslim religious leaders and the Pakistani government. - Arnulf Øverland
Arnulf Øverland was a Norwegian author born in Kristiansund and raised in Bergen. His works include "Berget det blå" (1927) and "Hustavler" (1929). Øverland was a communist from the early 1920s, but changed his stand in 1937 partly as a reaction to the Moscow Trials. He was an avid opposer to nazism and in 1936 he wrote the poem "Du må ikke sove!" ("You must not sleep") printed in the journal "Samtiden". - Germano Mosconi
Germano Mosconi (born San Bonifacio, Italy, 11 November 1932) is a sporting journalist and television anchor. Mosconi has been a well-known television personality in Northeastern Italy since the 1980s, through his sports anchor job at Telenuovo in Verona. He was known for his elegance and calmness in front of a television camera. In 2004, he was the subject of an anonymous Internet video that made him known all over Italy and around the world. - Patricia Pulling
Patricia Pulling (died 1997) an anti-occult campaigner from Richmond, Virginia, was the founder of Bothered About Dungeons and Dragons (BADD). This one-person advocacy group was dedicated to the elimination of the role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) and other such games. Pulling formed the organization after her son Irving (known as Bink, a nickname he allegedly hated) committed suicide on June 9, 1982. - Jacques Gruet
Jacques Gruet (Born ?, Died July 26, 1547) was a libertine and an atheist, who was put to death at Geneva during John Calvin's lifetime in the 16th century. Gruet used to frequent taverns, and his behaviour was unacceptable by the religious standards of those days. He wrote blasphemous notes and defied social conventions. Jacques Gruet argued for more personal freedom, and stated that all laws, both God's and Man's, … - Oskar Panizza
Leopold Hermann Oskar Panizza was a German psychiatrist and avant-garde author, playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, publisher and literary journal editor. He is best known for his provocative tragicomedy, "Das Liebeskonzil" (The Love Council,1894), for which he served a one-year prison sentence after being convicted in Munich in 1895 on 93 counts of blasphemy. Upon his release from prison, he lived for eight years in exile, first in Zurich and later in Paris. - Mohammad Shehzad
Mohammad Shehzad, (born July 24, 1969) is an Islamabad, Pakistan based freelance journalist and poet. According to the Sikhspectrum, he writes for some Pakistani and foreign publications:"The News", "Dawn", "The Friday Times", "Daily Times", "South Asia Tribune" (Washington, D.C.), Rediff.com (India), "The Hoot" (India), "Bangladesh Observer". - Alice Kyteler
Dame Alice Kyteler (1280 - later than 1325), was born in Kyteler's House, Kilkenny, Ireland, the only child of an established Anglo-Norman family. She was married four times, to William Outlawe, Adam le Blund, Richard de Valle and, finally, Sir John le Poer who suspected he was being poisoned. On his death, the children of her four husbands accused her of using poison and sorcery against their fathers and of favouring her first-born son William Outlawe. - Edward Moxon
Edward Moxon was a British poet and publisher. He was born at Wakefield in Yorkshire. In 1826 he published a volume of verse, entitled "The Prospect, and other Poems", which was received favourably. In 1830 Moxon was started by Samuel Rogers as a London publisher in New Bond Street. The first volume he produced was Charles Lamb's "Album Verses". Moving to Dover Street, Piccadilly, Moxon published an illustrated edition of Rogers's "Italy", … - Adalbert
Adalbert was a French "mystic" and probable fraudster who lived in the 8th century. Adalbert boasted that an angel had conferred miraculous powers on him at his birth and that another had brought him relics of great sanctity from all parts of the earth. He also claimed to be able to see the future and read people's thoughts, telling those who came to him that they had no need to confess, since he knew what they had done, and that their sins were forgiven. - Andrew Crosse
Andrew Crosse (1784-1855) was a British amateur scientist who is famous mainly for supposedly creating arachnids with his electrical experiments. - Lodowicke Muggleton
Lodowicke Muggleton (1609 - 1698), English sectarian, was born in Bishopsgate Street, London. His father was a farrier, but he himself was bred to be a tailor. In 1651 he began to have revelations, and to proclaim himself and his cousin John Reeve, whose journeyman he was, as the two witnesses mentioned in Rev. xi. 3. Acolytes of Muggleton and Reeve were known as Muggletonians. - William McIlroy
William J. McIlroy (1928-) is a British secularist and atheist activist, writer and editor. He was for many years editor of The Freethinker (three stints: 1970-1971, 1975-1976, 1981-1993) and General Secretary of the National Secular Society (two stints: 1963-1970, 1972-1977). In 2005, he received a lifetime achievement award from the NSS for 50 years of service to the secularist movement. - Herbert Achternbusch
Herbert Achternbusch (born November 23 1938) is a German writer, painter and filmmaker. His anarchist surrealistic films are not known to a wide audience in Germany, although one of them, "Das Gespenst (The Ghost)", caused a scandal in 1983 because of its alleged blasphemous content. Werner Herzog, a director of the New German Cinema, based his film Heart of Glass on a story by Achternbusch. - James Collinson
James Collinson (May 9 1825 - January 24 1881) was a Victorian painter who was a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood from 1848 to 1850. Collinson was a devout Christian who was attracted to the devotional and high church aspects of Pre-Raphaelitism. A convert to Catholicism, Collinson reverted to high Anglicanism in order to marry Christina Rossetti, but his conscience forced his return to Catholicism and the break-up of the engagement. - Sadeq Mallallah
Born in Qatif in 1970, Sadeq Abdul Kareem Malallah was a Saudi Arabian criminal, who was charged with blasphemy and apostasy while in prison, and executed for the latter crimes in 1993. The Washington Post reported the execution, in an article by Carlyle Murphy on October 1 1993. It reported that he had been executed in Qateef on September 3 of that year, after having been convicted of throwing stones at a police car in 1988 and imprisoned for five years in Mababeth prison. - Faisal Ahmad Shinwari
Faisal Ahmad Shinwari was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Afghanistan from 2001 until 2006. He was appointed to the post by Afghan President Hamid Karzai in accordance with the Afghan Constitution approved after the 2001 overthrow of the Taliban government. In 2006, President Karzai renominated Shinwari to the position of Chief Justice, despite constitutional concerns regarding his degree in Islamic law. However, the parliament rejected the nomination. - Haqiqat Rai
Haqiqat Rai was born at Sialkot (1724 CE) to Durga and Bhag Mal, Khatris of the Puri subcaste. It was common then for boys to study Persian under Maulvis (Muslim scholars). Haqiqat Rai was the only Sikh in a class where his other classmates were Muslims. One day, a boy in order to tease Haqiqat Rai, ridiculed Durga Mata, the Hindu mother goddess. Haqiqat Rai responded by ridiculing Mohammed. The Muslim boys tortured him and he returned home crying. - Charles Chilton Moore
Charles Chilton Moore (1837 - February 7, 1906) was an American atheist, and the editor of "Blue Grass Blade", one of the United States' first journals promoting atheism. C. C. Moore's grandfather was the 19th century religious reformer Barton W. Stone. Moore became a preacher, in his grandfather's tradition, but came to doubt the Bible and its teachings. He left the church, passing through deism and agnosticism before becoming an atheist. - Leslie Scarman Baron Scarman
Leslie George Scarman, Baron Scarman, OBE, PC (29 July 1911 - 8 December 2004) was an English judge and barrister, who served as a Law Lord until his retirement in 1986. He was born in Streatham but grew up on the border of Sussex and Surrey. He won scholarships to Radley College and then Brasenose College, Oxford, as a Classical Scholar, graduating in 1932 with a double first. He was called to the Bar in 1936. - Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart
Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (March 24, 1739 - October 10, 1791), German poet, was born at Obersontheim in Swabia. He entered the university of Erlangen in 1758 as a student of theology. He led a dissolute life, and after two years' stay was summoned home by his parents. After attempting to earn a livelihood as private tutor and as assistant preacher, his musical talents gained him the appointment of organist in Geislingen, … - Victor von Carben
Victor von Carben was a German rabbi who converted to Catholicism and became a priest. He was involved in the Pfefferkorn controversy, and was one of the four imperial commissioners appointed to examine Jewish books for blasphemy against Christianity, the others being Johannes Pfefferkorn, Johann Reuchlin, and Jacob van Hochstraten. - Tuve Skånberg
Tuve Skånberg is a Swedish Christian Democratic politician, member of the Riksdag 1991-2006. Skånberg is Doctor of Theology of Lund University (2003) and a minister of the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden (1980). Skånberg has a conservative Christian Democratic political profile. Among his more than 500 bills to the Swedish Riksdag, some have been considered controversial, as Riksdag bills against gay marriage and homosexual adoption, … - Glen Blasphemy
- Crossfade Blasphemy
~~Broken up wit her alreadi~~ "Is the best,most genious,outspoken and debative class in Republic Poly"quoted by many facilitators We juz rock the whole building Lets all laugh together to the stupid jokes we make till we part. - Sweet Blasphemy
Senior in school. Gonna be a writer when I graduate. Maybe a photo journalist for NG if I'm lucky. I like music and movies. And rats and guinea pigs. And photography. Love photography. I have an obsession with sharks, namely white pointers, and go ahead and laugh at me, but I think they're amazing creatures. Nip/Tuck rules my life. And so does Lord of the Rings. - Brandy [blasphemy]
-the names brandy. -spaulding :-/ -ive been alive for 17 years. -i wont put up with your bullshit, i have my own to deal with. -im nice, and id say im a damn good friend, but if i dont like you you probably know it -robby, the love of my life. nobody could ever understand how much i love you. if we can make it through this, we can make it through. - Rev Blasphemy
"UNHOLY REVERENCE".
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