Much of the alt-right emerged from message boards that highly prize shock value — a joke about a sacred idea or an unspeakable tragedy, something like the recurring line, "The Holocaust didn't happen, but it should have".
Now the Harvard professor has decided to gore another sacred cow the idea that mass Latino immigration is an unqualified blessing for America.
In the newer Mass, Mr. Flynn and others said, the crucial sense of the sacred, the idea that something central to the faith takes place on the altar, has given way to a more casual approach.
Of course not, yet, our culture encourages an I-can-do-anything mindset; we hold sacred the idea that with a little effort and some knowledge, we can achieve our desires.
Still, the sacred incorporates modern ideas of the public and private.
I used the example of Christianity as an alternative way to show the simplistic approach that defines religion based on ideas, sacred texts and purported ethical ethos that are actually historically dependent on human interpretation in shifting contexts.
God is with you.'" Buddhists, Christians, Muslims and members of other religions have long treated water as sacred, and the idea of water as elixir has ancient roots, going back at least as far as Roman spas.
While speaking on behalf of all Jews, including the most strictly Orthodox, on issues related to Middle East peace, for example, Rabbi Schindler also spoke out passionately against many positions that the Orthodox hold as sacred, including the idea that one's Jewishness ultimately flows from the mother's side of the family, not the father's.
Because science holds that no idea is sacred, it's inevitable that it draws people away from religion.
One of his talk breaks tonight sees him challenge the idea of sacred texts and ask if the Koran is really any more special than an edition of Harry Potter.
