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   Apr 26, 1990 · ‘Is Nothing Sacred?’ is the text of the Herbert Read Memorial Lecture delivered by Harold Pinter at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London on 6 February 1990. It was also published by Granta as a pamphlet.

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   Jan 1, 2001 · Faced with death threats and a fatwa (religious edict) issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, then Supreme Leader of Iran, which called for him to be killed, he spent nearly a decade largely underground, appearing in public only sporadically.

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   Is Nothing Sacred? is a stimulating and wide-ranging debate about some of the major moral dilemmas facing us today, such as the value of human life, art, the environment, and personal freedom.

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   Genre: Essay. Annotated by: Wear, Delese. Medical Education. Religion. Science. Date of entry: Jun-22-1994. Summary. In this essay on the spirit and the sacred, Rushdie examines the importance of language and literature in a secular, rationalist, materialist culture.

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   Detailed explanation: According to Salman Rushdie, the novel serves two primary functions: it conveys difficult and unpleasant information and it fulfills our need for wonder and comprehension.

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   Apr 1, 1989 · A riveting and heartbreaking book, a true-to-life case study of a dynamic pastor who turned out to be a sexual predator to those in his flock. In four years, he sexually abused at least six women in his church, including raping one in his office.

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   Why is the Sacred a conservative idea?

   • The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – Uncertainty, Progress, Change – into crimes. To take only one such declaration of obsolescence: I would have described myself as living in the aftermath of the death of god.

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   Can ideas be made sacred?

   • Ideas, texts, even people can be made sacred – the word is from the Latin sacrare, ‘to set apart as holy’ – but even though such entities, once their sacredness is established, seek to proclaim and to preserve their own absoluteness, their inviolability, the act of making sacred is in truth an event in history.

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   Why should literature be declared sacrosanct?

   • Literature is made at the frontier between the self and the world, and in the act of creation that frontier softens, becomes permeable, allows the world to flow into the artist and the artist to flow into the world. Nothing so inexact, so easily and frequently misconceived, deserves the protection of being declared sacrosanct.

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   Jan 1, 2002 · This book's author is best known for developing a non-realistic interpretation of Christian doctrine and an ever-more radically antirealist position in philosophy.