“MINISTER FOR Justice Dermot Ahern is to cut proposed fines for blasphemy from €100,000 to €25,000, under changes to be made to the Defamation Act next week.

Mr Ahern said the legislation, which passed its committee stage in the Dáil yesterday, has been drafted to “make it virtually impossible to get a successful prosecution [for blasphemy] out of it”.”

[Source: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2009/0702/1224249909022.html ]

I agree that it is (i) backward and (ii) probably counter-productive for the religious.
And of course, whether something is blasphemous is entirely subjective.

I see that the Edit function has been resurrected, hurrah!

I suggest a cheesecake with a communion wafer base. Or an animatronic Mohammed directing air traffic.

Remember how theist love to argue that atheism is a faith too? So be it! Make a creed (“we believe all gods are made up by humans…”). Register new religion. Take IPU as Holy Sign. Claim state benefits. And, most of all… PERSECUTE BLASPHEMERS!

I had that idea for my own country. We don’t have “blasphemy law”, but sort of fuzzy act of protection of “religious precious feelings”. In literal meaning it’s redundand with anti vandalism law, but is often interpreted in wider extent.

PLUS an extension kit including model Bali nightclub, London subway and World Trade Centre … while stocks last!

When rational debate and logic is just too hard.
When it begins to dawn on you that your opponents may just have a point.
When your rickety system of belief starts to crumble before your blinkered eyes.

That’s the time to declare … Blasphemy!