Blasphemy

(blas'fe-me.) [Gr. blasphemia.] A false, irreverent, injurious use of God's names, attributes, words, and works. Whenever men intentionally and directly attack the perfections ofGod, and thus le en the reverence which others entertain for him, they are blasphemers. By the Mosaic law, B. was punished with death, (Lev. xxiv. 10-16.) In many countries there still exist, though almost obsolete in practice, laws which punish B. with fine or imprisonment. [s. 97]