“Whoever blasphemes against the Father will be forgiven, and whoever blasphemes against the Son will be forgiven, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven either on earth or in heaven.”
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Gospel of Thomas (c. 50? — c. 140?)
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Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
The trial of Charles B. Reynolds for blasphemy (1887)
Context: Blasphemy is what an old mistake says of a newly discovered truth.
Blasphemy is what a withered last year's leaf says to a this year's bud.
Blasphemy is the bulwark of religious prejudice.
Blasphemy is the breastplate of the heartless.
And let me say now, that the crime of blasphemy, as set out in this statute, is impossible. No man can blaspheme a book. No man can commit blasphemy by telling his honest thought. No man can blaspheme a God, or a Holy Ghost, or a Son of God. The Infinite cannot be blasphemed.
“The sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven
By man is cursed alway.”
Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) American magazine writer, editor, and publisher
Unseen Spirits.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)
Kurt Vonnegut book The Sirens of Titan
Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 10 “An Age of Miracles” (p. 216)
Orson Pratt (1811–1881) Apostle of the LDS Church
Journal of Discourses 7:88 (Aug. 28, 1859).
Who goes to heaven
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
Widely attributed to Luther, but actually is an example given in 1658 book Ἑρμηνεια logica https://books.google.com/books?id=2MxlAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA228| of faulty logic. In Latin: <br class="br">Si vero termini in sorite sunt causae subordinatae per accidens, sorites non valet; ut ia hoc, Qui bene bibit, bene dormit; qui bene dormit, non peccat; qui non peccat, est beatus; ergo: qui bene bibit est beatus. Vitium est, quod bene bibere sit causa per accidens somni. <br class="br">Translated via Fauxtations https://fauxtations.wordpress.com/2016/08/21/drinking-and-not-sinning/: <br class="br">If, however, the conclusions in the sorite are subordinate by accident, the sorites is not valid; as in this one, He who sleeps well, drinks well; he who sleeps well, does not sin; he who does not sin, is blessed; therefore, he who drinks well is blessed. The problem is that to drink well is a cause of sleep only by accident. <br class="br">Disputed
Fred Phelps (1929–2014) American pastor and activist
"Bill O'Reilly & Rush Limbaugh: Satan's SpinDoctors." WBC Video News http://www.signmovies.net/videos/news/index.html. Westboro Baptist Church. July 27, 2006. <br class="br">2000s, Bill O'Reilly & Rush Limbaugh: Satan's SpinDoctors (2006) <br class="br">Context: Bill O'Reilly is a demon-possessed messenger of Satan. O'Reilly regularly slanders Westboro Baptist Church on his program, and he only has guests who join him in slandering Westboro Baptist Church, and refuses to allow Westboro Baptist Church to respond! Thus, Bill O'Reilly is a blaspheming hell-bound hypocrite claiming to be fair and balanced and running a no-spin zone. Hah! O'Reilly is of his father the Devil.
Mervyn Peake book Titus Groan
Source: Titus Groan (1946), Chapter 1 “The Hall of the Bright Carvings” (p. 9)
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Thoughts Suggested on the Banks of the Nith, st. 10.
Memorials of a Tour in Scotland (1803)
“O forgive! Thy sons live from Thee reft;
Praised for grace, Turn thy face to those left,
"Forgiven!"”
Yom Tov of Joigny English rabbi
Omnam Kayn, trans. from the Hebrew by Israel Zangwill