Defending God’s Honor.

It never ceases to amaze me that there are those who feel they need to defend God’s honor against, in their words, blasphemers and blasphemy (in my words a victimless crime), often demanding barbaric punishments (including the death penalty) against those, who, again in their words, ‘blaspheme’. People love to lord over other people; the more the better and if you can do it under the guise of religion, so much the better since obviously God’s on your side. But you’d think an all-knowing and all-powerful God, assuming there really is a God of course which IMHO is highly doubtful, could look after and defend Himself and smite those who gave Him the verbal, written or otherwise Big Finger. It almost seems as if God’s defenders don’t actually believe God can or could or would defend Himself and therefore this suggests that perhaps they don’t really believe a wrathful or vengeful God actually exists at all.

If I call Superman a poof, well that’s libel and slander and blaspheme. But Superman can defend himself and punch my lights out (he doesn’t need your help) or can file a legal complaint and initiate legal redress. If someone else files the complaint, that someone and the prosecution will need to not only prove that Superman actually exists, but was actually offended.

There can be only one offended party and that is the recipient of the blaspheming. If that party is not offended or takes no action, then nobody else can act on that person’s (or deity’s) behalf, nor has the right to without the offended party’s permission. Blaspheme laws are just an excuse for humans to exert power over other humans. End of story.