Are We Going to Treat the Sacred Poorly?

The more abstract your sacred thing is, the harder it is to get people to believe in it and understand it. We're going to get a kind of entropic game where all of our discussions of the sacred are going to tend in the direction of the more abstract. Think of the decline of marriage. In some sense, the abstract description of marriage would win on all the more abstract criteria of what would be the most sacred relationship. And then we also have this new concerns arising in people's practical lives, such as that the sacred naturally changes shape over time because we have different shared projects and individual long-term goals. Clearly one of the most surprising things about the sacred is that the