Some love attributing sacredness -- places beyond place, times beyond time, the infinite & the infinitesimal.  But anything elevated to the sacred becomes a thing  for which people will kill  or  die.  Often, people don't make this reckoning  until the dying 's done:   -death for a sign -death for a symbol -death for a chunk of dead earth -death for a vaguely evaluated idea  The agents of sanctification will kill us all.