2. HOLDING SACRED THAT WHICH IS NOT SACRED

2. Holding Sacred that which is not Sacred ~ 77 ~ is considered holy, this is the wrong application of a real, natural feeling. And this is the root cause of all kinds of evils. When man holds the non-holy as holy, he closes all manner of doors to progress. There are two aspects of holding the non-holy as holy. One is to consider all of nature as being sacred, while the other is to revere certain individuals as being sacrosanct. Both kinds of evils have been found all over the world since ancient times. This has been the greatest reason for man’s thinking having remained unscientific. The notion of holiness is deeply rooted in human psychology. To define in a phrase such a psychology is extremely difficult, for the words used to express profound psychological states are more often symbolic than realistic. I would simply agree in principle that the concept of holiness is the focal point of religion. The existence of holiness, is, nevertheless, real and not imaginary, as modern scholars of religion would have us believe. The truth is that the urge to worship is a natural instinct, which every man is born with. Man, because of this deep inner urge, wants actively to