Yet we live in an era when political boundaries, not the lives of nomadic pastoralists, are sacrosanct.

Alan Greenspan attained an almost iconic status as Governor of the Federal Reserve Board.

It has certain ideas at the heart of it, which we call 'sacred' or 'holy.' What it means is here is an idea or a notion that you're not allowed to say anything bad about.

Today's reformists are subjecting these traditional frameworks to scrutiny and attempting to separate the core ethical principles of Islam from the various historical adaptations that conservatives have enshrined as sacred.

Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of Yahweh and they sanctified the house of Yahweh in eight days and on the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.

Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch of the LORD so they sanctified the house of the LORD in eight days and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.