re: #385 Obdicut

Ireland still has blasphemy laws. Italy did up until 1999. The Netherlands had one until the 1960s. Poland still has them, and they fuck up politics there big-time. The UK imprisoned people for it up until the 1920s. So even in the Enlightenment countries, it’s taking awhile.

The USSR had it for “Insulting Soviet authority”.

There was an old joke about the fellow who got 11 years for calling Brezhnev an ikiot: one year for insulting soviet authority and ten years for revealing state secrets….