…and this is a 
It's that day when you're supposed to express your irreverence (hey, wait a minute, isn't that every day and every minute?), and if you think there is something you should do that's better than just wandering around uttering foul imprecations against gods and their priests, try supporting the Irish campaign to get their blasphemy law off the books.
But whatever is done in the spirit of weakening religious dogma is fine with me. I had some plans, but I may have to do a belated blasphemy…it's another day of travel for me.
Comments
Posted by: Kobra
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September 30, 2009 9:12 AM
Happy Blasphemy Day, everyone!
And what better way to celebrate than by entering my blasphemy day art contest? :P
http://www.kobrascorner.com/etc/blasphemy-contest.php
Posted by: Trug
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September 30, 2009 9:15 AM
Happy Blasphemy Day! I'd hoped to be able to do some things at work to support the cause (I really liked the LSU idea of giving out cookies in exchange for immortal souls) but alas, not enough time in the day...
Posted by: James Sweet
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September 30, 2009 9:20 AM
heh, I just posted a Happy Blasphemy Day message in a different thread about two minutes before PZ posted this.
Anyway, Happy Blasphemy Day!
Posted by: FSMdude
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September 30, 2009 9:25 AM
Hi everyone,
To celebrate blasphemy day, I've released all of my videos of Eucharist desecration on this website:
http://www.crackergate.com/
You can watch them, download them, and post them were you want. I recommend the ones with the ducks, the groundhog and the bong (public's favorites). And if you want to make Bill Donohue have an heart attack, upload them on youtube!
FSMdude
Posted by: Nerd of Redhead, OM
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September 30, 2009 9:27 AM
Hey Yahweh, if you exist, strike me dead with lightening today, which is a clear day here in Chiwaukee. If I am able to post tomorrow, you either don't exist, or are a lousy shot. I'll go with the former.
Happy blasphemy day.
Posted by: AJS
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September 30, 2009 9:35 AM
OK, I'll have a crack at this one:
There is no God, not even Allah, and Muhammed is no prophet but a reactionary, sexist jerk and a paedophile who bummed a nine-year-old girl. I shit in the Kaaba and wipe my arse on the Qur'an.
No ..... nothing has happened yet .....
Posted by: https://me.yahoo.com/a/OkTxAjgel4_QS9OQS7V19Cnj2xW.RIGcbzz.#ea8a6
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September 30, 2009 9:39 AM
God is a creation of man, not the other way around. Blasphemy accomplished.
Posted by: daveau
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September 30, 2009 9:40 AM
Yeah, Thor, come and get me if you exist. I got your Ragnarök right here, pal!
Posted by: Cuttlefish, OM
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September 30, 2009 9:41 AM
The first amendment means, to me,
The right to play at blasphemy;
The right to say “There is no God”
Without the threat of firing squad.
To speak, or sing, or draw, or write
And not be paralyzed with fright.
To mock Jehovah if I wish;
To point and laugh at Jesus fish;
And though the image strikes me weird,
To pluck Mohammed’s silly beard.
To say such things as I may choose
Regardless of opposing views.
About the pow’r of Holy Writ
I proudly do not give a shit.
http://digitalcuttlefish.blogspot.com/2009/09/happy-blasphemy-day.html
Posted by: Ol'Greg
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September 30, 2009 9:43 AM
Gah! Should have worn my shirt from arrogant atheist today. Speaking of that, I wonder where that shirt is right now? I need to clean my closet.
Posted by: Davianed
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September 30, 2009 9:53 AM
Cuttlefish, I bow before your rhyming prowess. That was freaking awesome :-D
Also, the last two lines just busted me up - something about the bluntness of the whole thing!
Posted by: Holytape
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September 30, 2009 9:59 AM
Happy Blasphemy Day!
http://www.holytape.etsy.com
Blasphemy and shameless self promotion. I do believe that also covers pride and greed. I would have done this sooner, but I am lazy, so that also covers sloth.
Posted by: fernaldo
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September 30, 2009 10:01 AM
It's nearing the end of Blasphemy Day for me already. I celebrated with an 'album' of my favourite blasphemous mock-motivational posters on Facebook.
I've also commented on the Irish blasphemy law. What a thoroughly ridiculous idea.
Posted by: nastasie
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September 30, 2009 10:10 AM
Happy Blasphemy Day!
And Happy Monkey too.
There's some twitter fun going on for us twits: #blasphemyday
Posted by: CunningLingus
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September 30, 2009 10:11 AM
A very happy Blasphemy day to all.
Alas my only contribution was getting banned from twelve xtian/muslim chat rooms on Paltalk. Two times for my nic alone, the rest simply for wishing everyone a happy blasphemy day (go figure). One room let me stay over an hour, even let me on mic a few times, but it was all in vain, they thought they were "saving" me.
Posted by: SQB
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September 30, 2009 10:15 AM
Should we Pharyngulate WikiPedia? The article on blasphemy does not mention Blasphemy Day, but that's not the main problem...
(Emphasis mine).So gods can object to references to them?
Posted by: SQB
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September 30, 2009 10:36 AM
The Dutch WikiPedia does it better, showing it can be expressed without assigning any qualities to gods:(translated):
Posted by: Kobra
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September 30, 2009 10:56 AM
Yes, we should.
Posted by: SQB
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September 30, 2009 11:03 AM
Done already. Thank you. I know, I should've been bold and done it myself, but English is not my native tongue.
Posted by: Alyson Miers
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September 30, 2009 11:32 AM
*clears throat*
Jesus never existed, and if anyone remotely resembling him actually lived, he was the product of some cad jumping the fence on his engaged adolescent mom, and Mary told everyone she got knocked up by God so she wouldn't get stoned to death for cheating on her fiance.
Also, Muhammad was incredibly high on shrooms when he wrote the Quran.
Mary may or may not have been high on shrooms when she came up with that "visit by an angel" malarkey, and may or may not have continued to do shrooms while she was gestating her oddball spawn.
Posted by: vanharris
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September 30, 2009 11:58 AM
If anything like the Christian, Jewish, or Moslem god exists,(& it almost certainly doesn't, & there's no rational sensible reason to believe that it does), then i say to it, you're an incompetent petty-minded schmuck, so fuck you.
That's a smiting offence, but i bet i'm still here tomorrow.
Posted by: RagingBullwinkle
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September 30, 2009 12:00 PM
Happy Blasphemy day!
I saw Dawkins last night in Toronto, and he was questioned about Blasphemy day. He didn`t even know about it. He must be busy.
Posted by: Mr T
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September 30, 2009 12:14 PM
God is dead! God remains dead! And we have killed him!
This blasphemy comes to you, my dear pharyngulites, courtesy of Friedrich Nietzsche. Ironically enough, I had the luxury of reading it in my Catholic high school's AP English class. Also, I'd like to add that I don't believe a god was ever alive.
So there. Eat shit, Quetzalcoatl! Go fuck yourself, Cthulhu!
Posted by: idle.pip.verisignlabs.com
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September 30, 2009 12:20 PM
I'm spending the day reminding people that "gay sex" can be done standing up (thou shalt not lie with another man), and that Jesus had 12 apostles. Male apostles. Whats more gay then a 13 man orgy?
Posted by: gadow
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September 30, 2009 12:27 PM
Jesus H. F-ing Christ, what am I going to do for Blasphemy Day? God(s) damn it.
Posted by: JSW
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September 30, 2009 12:27 PM
The Dark Knight was a pretty shitty movie.
Posted by: MikeM
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September 30, 2009 12:34 PM
Just remember these words:
"Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.--Deuteronomy 22:10"
I'm not sure about anyone else, but I hadn't planned to do that. But, you know, maybe I should, just to show 'em.
Posted by: Kobra
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September 30, 2009 12:37 PM
@24: A 14-man orgy.
Posted by: DingoJack
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September 30, 2009 12:46 PM
idle.pip.verisignlabs.com - Yes, but remember that John was the student* the Jesus loved best *wink wink* - DJ
______________
*evidently Jesus was an Ephebophiliac
Posted by: Hypatia's Daughter
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September 30, 2009 1:10 PM
What you get when you try to stamp out blasphemy:Taliban destroys Buddhas
Posted by: Sili
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September 30, 2009 1:11 PM
There is no god, and Dirac is his prophet.
Don't mock the asa. The last volume of Valhalla has just come out. Last one of all - covering the Ragnarok. :is sad:
Posted by: Hypatia's Daughter
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September 30, 2009 1:12 PM
Ooops! That was me, Hypatia's Daughter, in the last post!
(Finally got TypePad to work. Had to refresh the sign-in page to get TypePad to show up.)
Posted by: Hypatia's Daughter
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September 30, 2009 1:15 PM
Well, dang! My Name is being edited. How weird.
Posted by: aratina cage of the OM
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September 30, 2009 1:24 PM
A common and socially accepted occurrence at the time along with many other relationship practices now considered unacceptable, like polygamy and slavery. Christians are fucked yet again by their own roots. The next time I'm asked if I've ever read the holy babble™, I'm going to reply that I did—for the laughs!Posted by: a_ray_in_dilbert_space
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September 30, 2009 1:25 PM
Commuting on the roads of Washington, DC, I usually don't get 5 minutes from my house before any day becomes blasphemy day--not to mention a day to think up crative sexual practices my fellow drivers can try with close family members.
Posted by: Gerald Snit
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September 30, 2009 1:27 PM
I haven't done much to mark Blasphemy Day, although for dinner I ate a piece of halibut that was good enough for Jehovah.
Posted by: a_ray_in_dilbert_space
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September 30, 2009 1:28 PM
Hypatia & Daughter: "Well, dang! My Name is being edited. How weird."
Might I be so bold as to goddamn well point out that an opportunity for blasphemy was missed here.
Posted by: a_ray_in_dilbert_space
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September 30, 2009 1:32 PM
Just to assist those who wish to be blasphemous in a mulit-lingual fashion:
Italian:
Puerco Deo! (God is a pig.)
Puerco Madonna! (Extra credit for translation!)
These were favorite expressions among the Italians on my thesis experiment. The Russians seemed to favor references to the deity's tackle.
Posted by: Cycle Ninja
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September 30, 2009 1:39 PM
I'm blog-whoring, myself.
I did an open letter to Bill Donohue. I'm sure he's reading PZ's site, so I hope he runs across this.
Posted by: MAJeff, OM
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September 30, 2009 1:53 PM
What's the difference between Roman Polanski and God?
We only had to wait 30-some years to arrest get Polansi for raping a teenage girl, while God is still free after 2000 years.
(too soon?)
Happy blasphemy day.
Posted by: spyderkl
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September 30, 2009 1:59 PM
The only difference between God - any god - and Santa Claus? If an adult honestly believes in Santa, they're considered crazy.
Happy Blasphemy Day.
Posted by: Insightful Ape
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September 30, 2009 2:08 PM
No trolls whining about how mean we are?
Gets boring.
Posted by: Celtic_Evolution
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September 30, 2009 2:08 PM
My Blasphemy Day celebration consisted of giving my cousin a gift!
It was a copy of Dawkin's "The Greatest Show on Earth" gift-wrapped in pages I tore out of the KJ Bible my aunt gave me as a gift last christmas (she tries to 'save' me at least once a month).
I had wondered for the last 9 months what the hell I was going to do with that awful thing.
Oh, and yes... the aunt in question is the mother of my recently recovered ex-catholic cousin for whom the gift was meant...
Happy Blasphemy Day!
Posted by: Hypatia's Daughter
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September 30, 2009 2:09 PM
#37 a_ray_in_dilbert_space
I blush!
Am I redeemed?
(I guess I am registered as "hypatia" on TypePad and that is why it reverts that name. I shall have to see if I can fix that. Goddamn computers!!)
Hypatia's Daughter
Posted by: Q.E.D
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September 30, 2009 3:55 PM
When Cthulu wakes he will feast on Yahweh, Allah and the rest of humanity's false gods because Cthulu is the one true god.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Posted by: gadow
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September 30, 2009 3:59 PM
Q.E.D, you are wrong about Cthulu.
Hail to the Sun God
He is the One God
Ra! Ra! Ra!
Posted by: Susannah Anderson
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September 30, 2009 4:23 PM
So what's new? I do this every day.
Posted by: carole
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September 30, 2009 4:43 PM
PZ, you got a mention in the Telegraph today.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/6247329/International-blasphemy-day-from-Danish-cartoons-to-Jerry-Springer---The-Opera.html
Posted by: Brownian, OM
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September 30, 2009 4:52 PM
Ironically, probably the most Buddhist act they could have committed. After all, as Línjì famously wrote, "If you see the Buddha in Bamyan, use heavy artillery to destroy him!" (I may be paraphrasing.)
Posted by: Brian
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September 30, 2009 5:04 PM
Oh, today is Blasphemy Day? Well, then.
FUCK YOU, CTHULHU! I HOPE THAT SHITHEAD AZATHOTH SWALLOWS YOUR SOUL! SEE HOW YOU LIKE IT, HUH??
*ahem*
Posted by: 'Tis Himself, OM
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September 30, 2009 5:07 PM
Oh shucky darn, I knew I was forgetting to do something today.
God, you're a poopyhead.
Now I'm good for another year.
Posted by: Harmless Eccentric
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September 30, 2009 5:57 PM
I'm currently wearing mixed fabrics and enjoying a tasty pork chop. Also, I'm an atheist lesbian who voted for Obama. And I'm seriously considering skipping church this Sunday.
Posted by: Kamaka
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September 30, 2009 6:21 PM
Anti-blasphemy laws? jesus fucking christ on a stick!
Posted by: Smoggy Batzrubble OM4Jesus
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September 30, 2009 6:24 PM
POEM TO GOD, THE BLASPHEMER
Dear God, I think You need a day
When no one is allowed to pray.
A day in which You banish prayer,
So that Your mighty head is clear.
A day for peace, for great ideas,
For hearing music of the spheres.
A day for thinking what You’ve done,
By scape-goating Your only Son.
Dear God, enjoy the wondrous peace!
Just think: three billion selfish pleas
For health and wealth and piousness
Won’t crash into Your consciousness.
You won’t be forced to hear the rants
Of hateful men who’d like the chance
To rule us all, and dominate
With carrots of some Pearly Gate.
Dear God, I think that if You did
Allow some peace to soothe Your Id,
You might become quite horrified
At all the innocents who’ve died
Because You made such stupid rules
And wrote them down, so evil fools
Could poison young receptive minds
By lowering sweet reason’s blinds.
Dear God, your eye contains a beam,
It’s there because You too blaspheme.
For when you gave us minds for thinking,
But let them fill with rancid, stinking,
Fables of Rapture and Resurrection,
The patriarchs cracked an erection
So huge they fucked the very earth!
And You’re the one who gave it birth.
So God, I think You need to know
That it's past time for You to go.
Why don’t you try exploring space?
Perhaps out there you’ll learn true grace,
And realize that You’ve done us wrong.
Where You’re involved the hate is strong,
So clear your head, God. Close up shop.
It’s time for your sad reign to stop.
Smoggy
AMEN
Posted by: No More Mr. Nice Guy!
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September 30, 2009 7:48 PM
This was posted on alt.atheism by "nilone" many years ago:
Mary was a prostitute
who sold her cunt for cash.
If she was alive today
you'd call her 'trailer trash'.
Mary soon got pregnant.
'cause the pill did not exist.
When Joseph heard the news
Mary learned the taste of fist.
They ran away to Jerusalem,
supposedly for a census.
In fact they feared their parents
would see Mary's lack of menses.
So Mary had a little Lamb
in a cold and clammy stable.
This part of the bible may be true,
but the rest is just a fable.
They called the bastard 'Jesus'.
Said he was the son of God.
Soon his ego grew pretty big -
he though he was quite hot.
He called himself 'messiah',
he said he was 'the saviour',
and no one can go to heaven
unless they brown-nose for his favor.
He only had 12 friends
and all of them were men.
His nickname was 'the carpenter' -
been screwing from age ten.
The Romans didn't like him,
he pissed the priests off, too.
In order to crucify his arse
they bought one of his Jews.
Soon he was dangling from the wood
like a piñata in the sky.
He called out to his 'father' God -
haha! - he still believed the lie.
He died and was buried in a cave
sealed by big round stone.
Some mangy dogs found a way inside
and dragged off every last bone.
Millions of fools believe today
that he went up to God's abode;
in fact the dogs shit him out
on some deserted road.
That's the tale of Jesus Christ.
The bastard son of a whore.
His life was twisted and remade
To match some pagan lore.
He didn't die for your sins,
he only died for his own.
And if you still believe in him
You're a stupid fucking clone.
Posted by: Somnolent Aphid
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September 30, 2009 8:26 PM
i mean, really, how can i blaspheme against a god i don't believe exists? what's the point? to piss someone else off? pfff. i have other fish to fry.
Posted by: Lynna, OM
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September 30, 2009 8:50 PM
I like Smoggy's likening the Pearly Gates to great big carrots to lure the faithful. But now I'm experiencing metaphor overload, with visions of the flock nibbling at the gates. And some of them are sheep, and some of them are rabbits... and some of them are rare bits of effluent from various holy fonts and they can't nibble, so they just form a bacterial film on the carrot pillars -- all sniny! And God needs a cleaning crew.
I think I'd better go have more desert wine and chocolate -- and I'll see what happens if I also close my eyes.
Posted by: Cuttlefish, OM
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September 30, 2009 10:04 PM
Damn!
I need to repost a link--same verse as before (I can't compete with Smoggy's brilliance!), but now with added blasphemous blasphemy, in the form of one of Michael McRae's illustrations!
http://digitalcuttlefish.blogspot.com/2009/09/happy-blasphemy-day-take-two.html
Posted by: inflection
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September 30, 2009 11:56 PM
I like to celebrate my freedom from meaningless restrictions by having a nice religiously proscribed meal... preferably one available to as few religiously orthodox persons as possible. It puts me in an exclusive club!
Here's a nice salad: http://earl.of.sandwich.net/Photos/MyStuff/SkepticSalad.jpg
Equivalent celebration of reason may be had via a sandwich of ham, beef, lettuce, and onion, with a cuppa joe -- soda if you prefer, though the Mormons you ask will differ on the proscription. Which is really the point: most of the religions listed there find most of the rest of the ingredients just fine. You'd think that might be a clue, but there you are.
Note that there's another lesson in the negatives here. The point is not to offend, it's to celebrate. I could have tacked on a few more religions by having some alcohol with the meal, but I don't drink alcohol, for real, measurable health reasons that anyone, religious or not, can objectively assess.
Bon appetit!
Posted by: Ichthyic
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October 1, 2009 12:03 AM
FUCK YOU, CTHULHU! I HOPE THAT SHITHEAD AZATHOTH SWALLOWS YOUR SOUL! SEE HOW YOU LIKE IT, HUH??
oh, now you've gone and done it.
it's the back of the line for you, for sure!
;)
Posted by: Rey Fox
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October 1, 2009 12:15 AM
Xkcd is a really overrated comic.
Posted by: The Pint
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October 1, 2009 1:35 AM
Happy Blasphemy Day! Although I'm a bit surprised no one's linked to it yet, here's my contribution to the festivities:
http://stfubelievers.tumblr.com/
And yes, I know, I'm late. The consequences of all day traveling to a life-sucking work conference. But better late than never. Enjoy!
Posted by: Ichthyic
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October 1, 2009 1:56 AM
Xkcd is a really overrated comic.
yup, and Pharyngula is a really overrated blog.
Happy blasphemy day!
Posted by: Arwen
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October 1, 2009 4:00 AM
Hell yeah! Happy goddamn blasphemy day!
(Sorry, just had to get that out of my system)
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp
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October 1, 2009 8:38 AM
Oh great. I get the flu and totally miss blasphemy day.
Sign from god?
nahh, just kidding
Posted by: MAJeff, OM
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October 1, 2009 8:43 AM
Can my cat have some tasty Cthulhu? She doesn't get seafood very often.
Does it taste like salmon? She loves that.
Posted by: Nerd of Redhead, OM
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October 1, 2009 9:08 AM
God missed smiting me with a lightening bolt yesterday. Not what one would expect from an omnipotent being, if he/she/it/they existed.
Posted by: Forbidden Snowflake
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October 1, 2009 12:45 PM
For Blasphemy day, I:
1) Have worshipped Smoggy Batzrubble OM4Jesus before, after, on either side and instead of YHWH.
2) Neglected to crack a book by Athiest (sic.) Pope Richard Dawkins
3) Ran out on roof, panties in hand, yelling "Hey, Zeus! Come n' get me! In human form if at all possible!"*
*he didn't show. Just my luck.
Posted by: bobscience
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February 4, 2010 3:37 PM
Also, Muhammad was incredibly high on shrooms when he wrote the Quran.