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The theory and practice of blasphemy in the common law: Slaying the seven- headed beast

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... Also termed as the theological claim for exclusive truth (Frank, 2016), it encapsulates the idea that their respective religion is the one true faith and, by extension, that other forms of belief are regarded as false; "the Abrahamic religions", noted Padukone and Christopher (2012), "see other paths as inferior". Given the exclusivist position embedded in these three traditions, it is unsurprising that the act of forbidding blasphemy has been a historically Abrahamic phenomenon; the oldest practices of forbidding religious defamations-in its written legal form-can be traced back to as far as 16th century Christian England (Hare, 2017). ...
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