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Join the Church of Dermotology

Michael Nugent — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:05:16 +0000

On Wednesday 20 May 2009, speaking at a parliamentary Justice Committee debating his new blasphemy law, Dermot Ahern joked that people were making blasphemous comments about him, and he compared his own purity to that of the baby Jesus.

In response, on Monday 25 May 2009, at a crowded public meeting in Wynns Hotel in Dublin, campaigners against the blasphemy law have founded the Church of Dermotology, to worship Dermot Ahern and his proposed blasphemy law.

Please join at the Church’s Facebook Group Page and our Facebook Fan Page. Please also invite all of your friends to join what will surely become the world’s fastest-growing religion.

Stewart Lee on Blasphemy

Michael Nugent — Mon, 25 May 2009 09:06:53 +0000

Stewart Lee, co-writer of Jerry Springer The Opera, examines the impact of religious censorship on artistic expression (40-minute video).

Jerry Springer the Opera – Satan and Jesus

Michael Nugent — Sun, 10 May 2009 17:30:44 +0000

Publishing or performing this could be illegal in Ireland if the new blasphemy law is passed.

Jesus Christ! The Musical – Jesus Will Survive

Michael Nugent — Fri, 08 May 2009 05:16:18 +0000

Publishing this could be illegal in Ireland if the new blasphemy law is passed.

Sarah Silverman – My Boyfriend is Catholic

Michael Nugent — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:21:45 +0000

Publishing or saying this could be illegal in Ireland if the new blasphemy law is passed.

In the News – Wed May 6

Michael Nugent — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:07:49 +0000

Sinister blasphemy law would play into the hands of religious nut cases
(opinion piece by Stephen King in the Irish Examiner)
A blasphemy clause that does not fit the Bill
(opinion piece by Newton Emerson in the Irish Times)
Pakistan lawyer threatens to kill Christian charged with blasphemy
(news item in Compass Direct news)
Turkey puts novelist on trial for blasphemy
(news item in Press TV)

Monty Python – Every Sperm is Sacred

Michael Nugent — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:10:08 +0000

Publishing or performing this could be illegal in Ireland if the new blasphemy law is passed.

In the News – Tuesday May 5

Michael Nugent — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:05:10 +0000

Absurdity of blasphemy law revived by Ahern
(opinion piece by Fintan O’Toole in the Irish Times)

Blasphemy Laws Protect Bigots, Not Religions

Michael Nugent — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:20:41 +0000

“A hundred years ago this month, Bernard Shaw’s little play The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet was refused a licence for performance by the English censors… How brilliant of Dermot Ahern to mark this important event in Irish intellectual life by reminding us of the absurdity of blasphemy laws.

Does he really think that it should be a crime to offend members of the Jedi church (from census returns that includes 70,000 people in Australia; 50,000 in New Zealand; 390,000 in the UK) by saying that a light sabre makes you look like a dork? Of course not.

With one satiric touch he has honoured the memory of Shaw, Yeats and Gregory and reminded us that blasphemy laws exist to protect, not religions, but bigots. For his next trick, he will mark the Darwin bicentenary by threatening to make creationism compulsory.”

Fintan O’Toole, Irish Times, May 5 2009

Bill Maher on Religion

Michael Nugent — Sun, 03 May 2009 00:03:59 +0000

Publishing or saying this could be illegal in Ireland if the new blasphemy law is passed.