blasphemies

The Talmud was also thought to contain blasphemies against Mary's virginity and against Christ's purity at birth, specifically that he was fed on unclean menstrual blood in the womb. back

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

Ever since the late Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or death sentence, against Rushdie for what some Muslims called the blasphemies in his fantasy-filled novel "The Satanic Verses," Rushdie has been in hiding under the protection of Britain's security police.

The Stories Never Stop 2008

So-called blasphemies against it cannot diminish its sactitity.

Blasphemy! Censorship? | Mind on Fire 2007

For it was not so much their wish to insult God that made them rejoice in the tumult; but they felt satisfaction in knowing that each of their blasphemies was a sting in the hearts of these holy people.

Mogens and Other Stories Anna [Translator] Grabow 1866

No, any more than Bill O'Reilly and Rupert Murdock caused the jihadist attack on a physician who had violated a terrorist's religious sensibilities -- or, for that matter, any more than jihadist websites that publicize the "blasphemies" perpetrated by the United States cause alienated young men to become suicide bombers against us or our allies.

Drew Westen: Gun Violence and the Lessons of Tucson: Will the Chambers Once Again Be Loaded Against the American People? Drew Westen 2011

No, any more than Bill O'Reilly and Rupert Murdock caused the jihadist attack on a physician who had violated a terrorist's religious sensibilities -- or, for that matter, any more than jihadist websites that publicize the "blasphemies" perpetrated by the United States cause alienated young men to become suicide bombers against us or our allies.

Drew Westen: Gun Violence and the Lessons of Tucson: Will the Chambers Once Again Be Loaded Against the American People? Drew Westen 2011

Augusto met the young girl on the beach, he was already becoming aware of his own sexual desire — he already searched his "blasphemies" in the Latin dictionary, meaning, of course, Latin words with a sexual content (112) — and he promptly converts this budding sexual awareness into child's play, re-inscribing it in the realm of childhood innocence.

Children Playing by the Sea: the Dynamics of Appropriation in the Brazilian Romantic Novel 2006

Nigeria, and "blasphemies" directed toward the person of the prophet were not treated as mere infractions or artistic excesses.

Any Time Now... 2006

The various "blasphemies" were set forth in full, and my readers shall know what they were.

Prisoner for Blasphemy 1882

Meanwhile, railing judgments, though spoken with truth, against dignities, as being uttered irreverently, are of the nature of "blasphemies" (Greek, 1Co 4: 4, 5).

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871