Too Broad a Church

After a spate of protests in Denmark and Sweden involving the burning of some rather lurid fantasy fiction, the Danish parliament has passed a law against the desecration of religious texts. This has roused the ire of the political right, whose historical enthusiasm for book-burning rivals that of the pious and is surpassed only by their mutual enthusiasm for burning human beings. Though hastily amended to excuse the Kingdom of Denmark from sheltering the Pnakotic Manuscripts, the scrawls of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and other disreputable scriptures, the statute is still tactless enough to protect both of the false and heretical manifestations of the Abrahamic delusion; so it remains to be seen whether its concomitant protection of the true one will be enough to procure redemption.