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1. • • From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English is nothing sacred? spoken used to express shock when something you think is valuable or important is being changed or harmed → sacred Examples from the Corpus is nothing sacred?
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   What does 'nothing is sacred' mean?

   • often used by somebody to complain that people do not respect traditions, ideas, values, etc. as much as they should: For journalists these days nothing is sacred (= they will write about anything). Is nothing sacred? Want to thank TFD for its existence?

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   What if nothing is sacred and there is no God?

   • For if nothing is sacred, then there is no God, no Allah, and hence no prophets of God. And of course no Son of God. If nothing is sacred and there is no God, then there is no revelation of God in any form, not in nature, not in a human person such as Jesus of Nazareth, and not in any scripture.

   What Does It Mean to Say that Nothing is Sacred? - Maverick Philosopher

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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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   Is there a derivatively sacred thing?

   • If there is nothing that is originally sacred, then there is nothing that is derivatively sacred either. One obvious problem with Hitchens' position is that it is by no means obvious that there is nothing sacred. I should think that something is originally sacred if and only if God or a suitably similar transcendent Absolute exists.

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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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   What is sacred in a secular era?

   • The sacred is anything that we set apart from the world and which does not have an exchange value. They are the totems, rites, and taboos that we honor above all else. In a secular political age, what we determine as sacred falls to us. It is up to each new generation to either reconfirm or throw out the sacred.

   Is nothing sacred? How Durkheim defines the things that matter

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   nothing is ˈsacred often used by somebody to complain that people do not respect traditions, ideas, values, etc. as much as they should: For journalists these days nothing is sacred (= they will write about anything).

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   nothing is ˈsacred often used by somebody to complain that people do not respect traditions, ideas, values, etc. as much as they should: For journalists these days nothing is sacred (= they will write about anything).

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   Feb 15, 2009 · If nothing is sacred, then nothing is so far above us in reality and value as to require our submission and obedience as the only adequate responses to it. If nothing is sacred, then man is the measure of all things; he is not measured by a standard external to him.

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   Apr 26, 1990 · No, nothing is sacred in and of itself, I would have said. 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 ...

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   Oct 28, 2021 · According to Durkheim, it is religion that forms the foundation of all the multifarious societies we live in. This is not to say we need any particular religious content — like imams, pagodas,...

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