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That ranking has little to do with free speech. In most of the countries with the best scores blasphemy is illegal.
by unabridged 9y ago
That ranking has little to do with free speech. In most of the countries with the best scores blasphemy is illegal.
- vacri 9y agoAnd in the US, there are states where an atheist is legally barred from being governor. And you can be pretty sure that blaspheming in the nations listed with the best scores will be more acceptable than blaspheming in the religiose US. As I said, there is a difference between law and implementation. Also, it's not true that the top-scorers have blasphemy laws - most of them don't have one at all at the moment, and the ones that did were mostly used in the early part of last century (and rarely at that). Even Germany's 'blasphemy' law is actually a 'disturbing the peace' law; you're not going to go to jail for saying 'christ' when you hit your thumb with a hammer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law