From today, if you want to criticise religion in Ireland in a way that its adherents choose to find offensive, you might find yourself paying 25,000 euros for the privilege. To highlight this regressive new blasphemy law, the Atheist Ireland blog has posted a list of 25 blasphemous quotes and asking bloggers to republish them. So here we go.

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Being an atheist with no close family, who is old enough to know my own mind, I’ve developed the freedom over the last few years to dispense with the most regrettable customs surrounding the close of December and to do the things that I think are appropriate instead – making a series of small charitable donations in response to the rampant consumerism going on all around me.

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