Sentence examples for blaspheme from inspiring English sources
The word "blaspheme" is correct and can be used in written English
You can use it when you are expressing outrage or disrespect towards a deity, or its religious beliefs and concepts. Example sentence: The man uttered blasphemous words against God in the holy church.
verb
To commit blasphemy; to speak against God or religious doctrine.
He often describes things as "blasphemous", but they are as likely to blaspheme against geometry as against God (whom Lovecraft didn't really believe in).
Baddiel describes himself as "pro-religious atheist" and says that he finds people who deliberately set out to blaspheme stupid, as well as those who threaten to kill blasphemers.
NOT for the first time, feelings in Pakistan have been hurt and censorship provoked by an overseas campaign to blaspheme the Prophet Muhammad.
You took the easy, safe way out and postured and displayed your fine moral credentials at next to no cost or risk to yourself.James AllanGarrick Professor of LawUniversity of QueenslandBrisbane, AustraliaSIR – The freedom to "blaspheme" should be left to stand-up comedians and the like.
Words that had already entered the language through French were now borrowed again, so that doublets arose: benison and benediction; blame and blaspheme; chance and cadence; count and compute; dainty and dignity; frail and fragile; poor and pauper; purvey and provide; ray and radius; sever and separate; strait and strict; sure and secure.
The "storms" of temptation, as he calls them, buffeted him with almost physical violence; voices urged him to blaspheme; the texts of Scriptures, which seemed to him to threaten damnation, took on personal shape and "did pinch him very sore".
"We will praise anyone who chops off the hands or cuts off the head of a blasphemer," Abdul Rahman Makki, a senior leader of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa group, told a crowd of supporters in Islamabad.
Earlier this year, when Hamza Kashgari, a Saudi writer, was deemed a blasphemer by his country's authorities for a poem, the internet was filled with hate speech against him.Yet as more and more Muslims buy smartphones and get online, it is unlikely that radicals will benefit most.
WHILE European governments argue over what is to be done about Iran (answer from a ministerial meeting in Luxembourg this week: not very much), Iranians are having an argument of their own: what is to be done about Salman Rushdie?The British writer was judged a blasphemer and worthy of death, in a fatwa issued by the late Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989.
The Independent's blaspheming scribes were perhaps lucky to be released on bail this week.Zimbabwe provides a dramatic illustration of how statist economic policies, corruptly enforced, swiftly impoverish.
But, according to Pakistan's law, as a blasphemer he could now be executed.For moderate Pakistanis, proud of living in a country that has defied military rule, ensured the return of democracy and promoted the interests of its people against meddling outsiders, it is troubling to see thuggish radicalism spreading in such a fashion.
