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If all is sacred, is nothing sacred?<\/p>\n

This is related to a previous discussion here at FPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The categories of \u201csacred\u201d and \u201cprofane\u201d have a long history in the study of religion. And attempts to collapse the sacred and profane can be understood many different ways. I actually find it valuable to consider \u201cAll as Sacred\u201d; but not in the sense that \u201cthe sacred\u201d is simply a spatial category. IMO, the sacred is a relational category contingent on how we perform within a given space. In other words the sacred is a mode of becoming involving multiple parties (us and God in most cases), rather than a state of being that exists independent of my performance and simply within a given space. In this light, everything is sacred in that there is a proper and an improper way of us performing life\u2019s events (including the option of non-performance in cases that call for it). To perform it improperly is to desecrate a sacrality within ourselves. The sacred, IMO, need not be understood simply an external quality found in a given sphere.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"