Blasphemy Day

Today, 30 September, 2009 is Blasphemy Day. Celebrate by making hamburger out of a few sacred cows. In “Blasphemy: verbal offense against the sacred, from Moses to Salman Rushdie”, Leonard Williams Levy states that the last cluster of blasphemy cases in the United
States occured around 1970. The last was in 1971 when two Pittsburgh shopkeepers were charged for displaying a poster with a well-known cartoon below on it. The cartoon actually dated from 1917 and was commonly used by labor groups.

To celebrate, I’m posting a few blasphemous statements:

The Moon does not produce its own light, and stars do not fall.
Pluto is, at best, a very large comet. It’s not a planet.
Star Wars was a good movie, but some of the acting was a little weak. (This means you, Mark Hamill!)
Bats are not birds, and birds are not fish.
The longest anyone’s ever been dead, only to be resuscitated and return to a normal life, is two and a half hours.
The Sun does not orbit the Earth. The Earth orbits the Sun. “E pur si muove!”
The Earth is an oblate spheroid. It is not flat.
Snakes don’t talk!
π (pi) to a ten digits is 3.1415926535.π is not equal to 3.
Unicorns and dragons are mythical beasts.
L.Ron Hubbard was a drug-addled, failed sci-fi writer and a fraud. (Xenu told me so!)