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To: Mrs. Don-o
Even our churches are threadbare and feeble when it comes to beauty, ceremony, awe.

Not the German churches, and I've been in a lot of them.

You use it sacredly, or you leave it alone.

Yet Germans do not see breasts on a billboard as non-sacred.

187 posted on 12/15/2006 1:28:30 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat; dangus; Atlantic Bridge
"You use it sacredly, or you leave it alone"
---Yet Germans do not see breasts on a billboard as non-sacred..

That dissolves the meaning of the word. A quick look at the thesaurus links "sacred" with "consecrated, cherished, set aside for an elevated purpose, guarded, inviolable." Antonyms include "irreverent, secular, profane, degraded, unconsecrated."

Human nakedness is strongly laden with meanings: on the one hand, privacy, intimate knowing, trust. The mother nursing her baby, the lover and the beloved, the joys of the marriage bed.

On the other hand, without the privacy and the intimacy, nakedness is linked to depersonalization, shame, degradation. Date rape, the brothel, the slave auction, Auschwitz.

Do you think a man would see his mother's, wife's, or daughter's nakedness plastered up on a billboard as "consecrated, guarded, inviolable"? Permit me to say I doubt it.

Well, I suppose you could eventually get to the point where none of it means anything. No height, no depth, no heaven. Hell? Yes, if after you get past the heat, hell ends in cold.

209 posted on 12/15/2006 4:51:32 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Good sex: the basis of a good civilization.)
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