sacralize

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I very much like Volf's characterization: "To sacralize what we would have done in any case."

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  • I very much like Volf's characterization: "To sacralize what we would have done in any case." —  Israelated - English Israel blogs
  • Their goal was to re-sacralize science, to turn the clock back 150 years and re-allow the supernatural to count as science. —  YubaNet.com
  • One did not have to sacralize the Torah, one could milk cows quoting it. —  TPMCafe
  • In the United States, this urge to sacralize the memory of September 11 played out at the both micro and macro levels. —  news.newamericamedia.org
  • "'Thin' is a cultural resource that provides a canopy over who we are, and it functions to legitimize, to sacralize, what we would have done in any case. —  Orthodox Anarchist
 

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