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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20221019-194208-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/sex-god-and-blasphemy/ Sex, God, and Blasphemy Vikarská, Zuzana eng 2022-10-19 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Blasphemy Catholicism Czech Republic Czechia Freedom of Expression right to religious liberty Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Blasphemy used to be a grave offence once. Now, it is on the decline, making room for freedom of expression. Yet, two judgments of last week show that blasphemy has managed to re-enter the stage through the back door. In this blogpost, I argue that although both cases ended well, i.e. were decided in favour of freedom of expression of artists and activists, both courts erred in their assessment of the role of religion and religious sentiment in European secular democracies.