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What heretical ways will you celebrate?

In 2009, the Center for Inquiry started the Blasphemy Day event (didn’t our own Katie Kish help start it?) to commemorate the anniversary of the publishing of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons.  We all remember how well those cartoons went over, don’t we?

No idea or ideology should be above critique.  CFI clarifies its purpose behind such a day, and states that:

The day was created as a reaction against those who would seek to take away the right to satirize and criticize a particular set of beliefs given a privileged status over other beliefs. Criticism and dissent towards opposing views is the only way in which any nation with any modicum of freedom can exist.

I’m not sure if there are any official festivities going on in Canada today, but if you’re like me, every day is a great opportunity for a little blasphemy.  After all, blasphemy is a victimless crime.

In 2009 the Saskatoon Freethinkers held a Blasphemy Day event, where we held debaptisms and offered people the chance to deny the Holy Spirit.  Here’s my YouTube heretical debut, and you can check out several others’ denials and debaptisms here on the YouTube channel.

Happy heresy, everyone!