I understand the importance of sacredness in the commons, and why the sacred gro

I understand the importance of sacredness in the commons, and why the sacred grove was so influential for us. The painful discipline of respecting the sacred in Churches every week, teaches you a behavior to demonstrate in the commons. Those who cannot control their impulses sufficiently in sacred places have many other nasty habits. Men who have nasty habits but can control their impulses in sacred places can still expect to be respected in matters of the sacred.

i can respect teh sacredness of ritual in japan, I do not like the sacredness of buddhism’s internal life, I certainly do not like the sacredness of muslim obeyance, or its pervasive dominance of society. Certainly don’t like the jewish verbal separatism. I can criticize our churches for their attempt to preserve their absurd babylonian/jewish mysticism. But it is quite hard to argue with the rituals of stoicism, and the sacredness of the grove. The problem I see is that these are not political orders, so much as tribal, and that our people (the west) did not develop a political religion after paganism. And maybe that was the right answer.

How do we create sacredness in nature, man, and the relationship between nature and man once again? How do we return to the transform of the earth in a garden? Into paradise?