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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; Blasphemy</title>
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		<title>Australia: boy charged for wearing t-shirt degrading Jesus</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21696/"><img src="/graphicspics/tshirt.jpg" alt="T-shirt" width="91" height="90" border="0" style="float:left;padding-right:5px;"></a> The boy, 16, was stopped by police in Biggera Waters after he was spotted wearing a t-shirt which claims "Jesus is a (expletive deleted)" and depicts a nun masturbating.
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It is a t-shirt for English extreme metal band Cradle of Filth.]]></description>
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		<title>Chocolate Jesus Resurrected In New York City</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA["My Sweet Lord," an anatomically correct milk chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ that infuriated Catholics before its April unveiling was canceled, returns Oct. 27 to a Chelsea art gallery, its creator said Tuesday. This time, artist Cosimo Cavallaro said he expects the public exhibit to proceed without a problem.]]></description>
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		<title>Chocolate Jesus exhibition canceled after Catholics protest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A planned Holy Week exhibition of a nude, anatomically correct chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ was canceled Friday after Cardinal Edward Egan and other outraged Catholics complained.]]></description>
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		<title>Beliefwatch: Blasphemy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:44:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Blasphemy Challenge is a joint project of filmmaker Brian Flemming, director of the antireligion documentary The God Who Wasn't There, and Brian Sapient, cofounder of the atheist Web site RationalResponders.com.]]></description>
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		<title>Greek ban lifted on hippie Jesus book</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ATHENS &#8212; An appeals court yesterday overturned the conviction of Austrian cartoonist Gerhard Haderer for blasphemy over a comic book portraying Jesus as a marijuana-smoking hippie. Haderer, 54, was given a six-month suspended prison sentence in January for &#8220;maliciously insulting the Orthodox Church,&#8221; and his book The Life of Jesus was banned in Greece - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus as a drunkard, naked surfer?</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/10941/jesus-as-a-drunkard-naked-surfer</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A Greek court will rule on Wednesday whether to allow sales of a cartoon book from Austria depicting Jesus Christ as a drinking buddy of Jimi Hendrix and a marijuana-smoking, naked surfer.
Cartoonist Gerhard Haderer was found guilty by a Greek court of &#8220;malicious public blasphemy&#8221; this year and received a six-month suspended prison sentence for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cartoonist faces Greek jail for blasphemy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[He meant it as a piece of religious satire, a playful look at the life of Jesus. But Gerhard Haderer&#8217;s depiction of Christ as a binge-drinking friend of Jimi Hendrix and naked surfer high on cannabis has caused a furore that could potentially land the cartoonist in jail.
Haderer did not even know that his book, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No action on &#8216;gay Jesus&#8217; - police</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9684/no-action-on-gay-jesus-police</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2004 21:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Police investigating a controversial theatre production which depicts Jesus as homosexual have said they will be taking no further action at the moment.
Christian Voice has labelled Corpus Christi, now playing in St Andrews, a &#8220;hate-filled mockery&#8221;.
A member of the prayer group lodged a complaint of blasphemy with Fife police after walking out of the play [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artist Hirst opens religion show</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/4343/artist-hirst-opens-religion-show</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anton Hein</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Controversial British artist Damien Hirst opens a show examining God and religion in London on Wednesday. 
The show, Romance in the Age of Uncertainty at London&#8217;s White Cube Gallery, is reportedly based on the life of Jesus and his disciples.
The exhibition includes cow heads with metal instruments sticking out, and a glass cabinet full of [...]]]></description>
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