Stephen Fry faces blasphemy probe in Ireland after God comments

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3. "The viewer was not said to be offended himself "

Oh, man, isn't that always the case these days? Miss Prunella or Mr. Prunetto get their undies wadded up because they think some other person might be offended by something they've seen or heard, so they start raising hell about it

Meanwhile, the people who are supposed to be offended usually got the joke and wish these people would disappear back into the Puritan woodwork they crawled out of.

Then again, maybe Eire is ready to let go of another piece of Mediaevalism, blasphemy laws. Let the church do its own dirty work and leave the government out of it. After the scandals about the enslavement of young women in launderies, the sale of children on the adoption market, and the priests fucking everything that would hold still long enough, the Irish seem ready o get the church completely out of its government.