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Re: Sacred Landscapes
Jul 30, 2003, 19:20
As a non-religious person, I have terrible difficulties with terms such as `sacred landscapes`.

Nothing is sacred, to me.

It seems that if someone with religious beliefs describes something as sacred, then it is!

Well, it isn`t to me.

For instance, the Kaaba in Mecca is probably regarded as the `most` sacred thing on Earth to hundreds of millions of people. Wherever they are, they face it to pray. To me, it`s a stone, probably a meteorite. I just have to accept that other people regard it as sacred, but that doesn`t mean that *I* have to regard it as sacred.

`Sacred` has no meaning, to me.

`Sacred landscapes` is even worse, when used in a prehistoric context. We don`t know if any site was regarded as sacred, a few thousand years ago in Britain. Even if they were thought of as sacred by the prehistoric people living there, I believe that they were mistaken, just as I regard a present-day Christian as being wrong when he/she thinks of their local church as being sacred.


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