lest we forget: rip thomas aikenhead, executed for blasphemy 8 january 1697

[Pickman's model]

Blasphemy! The Sins of Thomas Aikenhead — Edinburgh Expert Walking Tours

On 8 January 1697, Thomas Aikenhead became the last person in the UK to be executed for the crime of blasphemy. He had been a student at Edinburgh University, and was just 20 years old when he died at the end of a rope at the Gallowlee, a site of execution between Edinburgh and Leith. The Blasphemy

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he was the last person executed for blasphemy in britain.

 

[existentialist]

Given the way things are going, I wonder who will be the next? Someone who has presumably suggested that Boris Johnston is not the messiah, perhaps?

 

[tim]

Given the way things are going, I wonder who will be the next? Someone who has presumably suggested that Boris Johnston is not the messiah, perhaps?

In that case it will be Rachel Johnson.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

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Blasphemy! The Sins of Thomas Aikenhead — Edinburgh Expert Walking Tours

On 8 January 1697, Thomas Aikenhead became the last person in the UK to be executed for the crime of blasphemy. He had been a student at Edinburgh University, and was just 20 years old when he died at the end of a rope at the Gallowlee, a site of execution between Edinburgh and Leith. The Blasphemy

www.edinburghexpert.com

he was the last person executed for blasphemy in britain.

People who publish websites with grey text on a white background should be executed.

 

[Argonia]

Poor bastard.

I note that the Blasphemy Act was 1661 - so after the fucking Restoration.

Don't they still have active blasphemy laws in places like Pakistan? Fucking absurd.