"Blasphemy is an artistic effect, because blasphemy depends upon a philosophical conviction. Blasphemy depends upon belief and is fading with it. If any one doubts this, let him sit down seriously and try to think blasphemous thoughts about Thor. I think his family will find him at the end of the day in a state of some exhaustion." - G.K. Chesterton, Heretics, Ch. 1
I'd call this pretty blasphemous. I could also say something about Thor and Loki that I'm fairly sure would qualify. Then again, I'm pretty weird in that I'm as firm and as thorough about my non-conviction of existance or non-existance of every other deity as I am about the Christian one. It's just that the Christian one keeps coming up more than the rest, for some odd reason. And because nobody cares, jokes about Thor hold a lot less punch. I'd still call them blasphemous.
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