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Calling the sacred ordinary, usually by people who think they're the first to notice.

means Speech or action that treats something held sacred as if it were contemptible, trivial, or fair game for mockery.

from From Greek 'blasphemia' — 'blasphemos' meaning slanderous or evil-speaking, built from roots pointing to harmful speech, possibly tied to 'blaptein' (to injure) fused with a word for speech or fame. It passed through Latin 'blasphemia' into Church usage, where it narrowed to mean injury done by word against God or the holy. The sense has always been about damage caused by a tongue, not an idea — which is why what counts as blasphemy shifts with whatever a culture has decided is too sacred to touch.

legal status
still a crime in over 60 countries
etymology
greek blasphemia, literally evil speech
subjectivity
one faith's insult is another's scripture
uk history
britain abolished its blasphemy law only in 2008
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