The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Nothing about life is sacred until we make it so.
We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong.
Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.
The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them.
We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more.
Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed.
That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.
If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
Nothing is sacred, right?
Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.