Blasphemy is back... in Greece. [keeptalkinggreece.com]blasphemy-laws-back/
It always surprises me when people fail to see the truth behind the “we want to safeguard the real rights and real freedoms of people, regardless of their political or religious beliefs and religious doctrines.” This is about control and making people afraid by ambiguous edicts, where does the church end and secular begin. Fernapple nails it with the economic trouble in Greece.
Greece is in economic trouble, which always brings out the intolerance in people, and it maybe that secretly there is a racial/nationalistic element which feels menaced by its neighbors. As Turkey has taken a turn towards the fundamentalist right, so many in the Greek Christian right may feel they need to respond with like.