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The common law offence of blasphemy was repealed in 2008. The last person to be imprisoned for blasphemy in the UK was John William Gott in 1922, for comparing Jesus Christ to a clown . [ 18 ] The next blasphemy case was in 1977, when Mary Whitehouse brought a private prosecution ( Whitehouse v.
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The laws are based on authenticated texts from Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith, subsequent interpretations from `Abdu'l-Bahá and Shoghi Effendi and legislation by the Universal House of Justice. [4] Baháʼí law is presented as a set of general principles and guidelines and individuals must apply them as they best seem fit. [4]
Similar law codes are produced such as the early 11th-century law codes of Cnut and Canons of Edgar, written by Archbishop Wulfstan (died 1023) of York, which enforce observance of Christianity across the whole of England, including the baptism of newborns, paying of tithes, worship and love of one god and participation in housel. They further ...
The status of religious freedom in Europe varies from country to country. States can differ based on whether or not they guarantee equal treatment under law for followers of different religions, whether they establish a state religion (and the legal implications that this has for both practitioners and non-practitioners), the extent to which religious organizations operating within the country ...
The book was also displayed in many Anglican parish churches alongside the Holy Bible. The passionate intensity of its style and its vivid and picturesque dialogues made the book very popular among Puritan and Low Church families, Anglican and nonconformist Protestant, down to the nineteenth century.
In 2016, the Committee on the Rights of the Child called for an end to compulsory collective worship in UK schools. [19] Christian nationalists see the call by some to remove collective worship in schools as "the next step in the ongoing erosion of our Christian heritage" and state that "Christian collective worship should stay because [the UK ...
Lester DeKoster views the two aspects of Christian liberty as "freedom from" and "freedom for" and suggests that the pivot between the two is the divine law. [2] In the area of Christian living, liberty is often discussed in terms of what activities Christians are free to engage in. Modern-day issues concerning Christian liberty include alcohol ...