Sacrilege

Sacrilege

Sacrilege is a type of disrespectful behaviour in religion, and usually it goes to extremes, though not always. There are numerous different types of sacrilege as well, discussed throughout this series. Sacrilege can be a few different things: Treating an object with religious importance like any other object. Stealing a religious object. Damaging a religious ...
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Desecration

Desecration is defined as basically physically depriving a sacred object of its sacred character, or intentionally causing malicious damage to a sacred object, which can be any number of things, from burial sites, artifacts, remains, monuments, and religious text, for a few examples. Desecration is considered by most to be another type of sacrilege, which ...
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Blasphemy

Blasphemy is considered sometimes a lesser act of sacrilege, because it is mainly a form of oral religious disrespect. Though on the other hand, sometimes physical acts of sacrilegious behaviour are called blasphemy, though most likely inaccurately. Generally speaking an act of blasphemy is indignity offered to God through words, writing or signs, –apparently hand ...
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Divine Law

Religion itself is a type of code of conduct, and ties directly into the culture and lifestyle of those who practice the religion. Divine Law is the code of behaviour that dictates how the religious followers should preferably behave. Those who break the Divine Law, or laws, were sometimes charged with serious crimes, and executed, ...
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The Anti-Sacrilege Act

The Anti-Sacrilege Act was never actually used, but it does prove a point, of how seriously many religions do take their faith. Also shown, is a list of countries that still have laws against blasphemy, all though some have been repealed, many of the countries listed below still have laws against blasphemy that apply to ...
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