Thomas Pooley?
Thomas Pooley, who lived in the arrangement of Liskeard, was a well-digger of foolish beliefs. He hint the earth was a living, posture animal, and he feared that, if he dug too profoundly in it, he may possibly leach its crust and nip basis parts. He supposed a belief in one elder and sagacious "Almighty Hang on," but exploit with his man men taught him to hatred Christians and "Christian Bible authoritarianism." He did not, nevertheless, interfere with the Christian beliefs of his warm husband, or the Christian happening of his children. One of his odd beliefs, which resulted in his confinement, was that boiling all the Bibles and spreading their vestiges bigger fields would pick up the tab potato rot. Other than Pooley was an model commencement and husband, and an persistent distribute, he had a keep a note for so mentally uneven and a arrangement atheist. But he was oblivious of freethought literature. Holyoake, who went to Cornwall to study his crust, wrote moodily that, if Pooley had "had the depletion of Enlightened books, he may possibly now be of fondly assiduousness."
For fifteen verve, Liskeard and its periphery had been frustrated by chalked inscriptions on ramparts and gates, expressing sentiments that shock holier-than-thou relatives. Pooley was hint to be the culprit, but no one ever saw him to the words. One day, the Cornish Period ran this ad: "Sacrilege. Any heart who has seen a man words immoral sentences on gates or other sitting room in the cut up of Liskeard, is requested to narrate at this instant with Messrs. Pedler and Grylls, Liskeard, or with the Rev. R. Hobhouse, St. Ive Residence." Hurriedly behind schedule, the Monk Paul Bush filed a insult make an objection vs. Pooley, asserting that he had blasphemously libeled the Superhuman Scriptures, the Christian religion, and God. Pooley may allow been humiliated of chalking the messages, but not even Bush ever saw him do it; Pooley was in words of one syllable seen in the hinterland, and he held in God. Bush, who was cleric of Duloe, swore that he had read on a edit the words: "Duloe stinks with the rat Christ's Bible-Blasphemy -- T. Pooley." Convinced children erased all but the first and progress words. No voucher was ever open that the printing was in Pooley's hand, but these words on the edit constituted the first subject in Pooley's justification for bad language.
A jiffy subject consisted of literal gate-writing. Like Pooley was summoned not later than the Liskeard courts, he walked arrived square with a cord something like his neck and told the board of adjudicators to gash it "and allow done with it." To the constable who took him off to send down to await trial Pooley emotionally alleged, "If it had not been for the blackguard Jesus Christ, seeing that he scarf the donkey, the control would not be sought-after, and... he [Christ] was the front of all stealing and whoredom." That commentary optional extra a third subject to his justification for bad language. A fourth subject was consequent from his recurrently unambiguous belief that the vestiges of Bibles would pick up the tab potato rot.
[Blasphemy: verbal libel vs. the sacred, from Moses to Salman Rushdie by Leonard Williams Monies pp. 467-8]Pooley was convicted on all four counts and sentenced to serve 21 months in detain. Well-healed British atheists and freethinkers adopted the crust as a "cause", other than they inclusive dismissed Pooley himself as mad. The blasphemous literati conical out that new anti-Christian tracts were published and verbose in London on a weekly justification, but their authors were not brought up on charges.
Five months arrived his judgment, Thomas Pooley was pardoned by the presiding arbiter at his trial, John Coleridge. The blind date was 1858. There would not be discrete bad language proceedings in Britain for self-important than two decades, but the law under which Pooley was charged, arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced stayed on the books -- and bad language bags continued to be argued in the courts until last in the 20th century, with one crust by British Muslims infuriating to allow Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses legally prohibited, and the law itself was not abolished until 2008!
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