Nonsacred

She says hoodoo stores are corrupting the spiritual belief system by selling inferior, nonsacred products and focusing on alleged quick fixes to problems. ❋ Cameron McWhirter (2010)

But surely if we were talking about any nonsacred book, that is what the conclusions of modern biblical criticism would add up to. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In general, sacred seasons, times of great communal ceremonies, demand the avoidance of ordinary pursuits, which, it is feared, may imperil the success of the ceremonies by necessitating contact with things infected or nonsacred. ❋ Crawford Howell Toy (1877)

Apparently, however, all these usages of purification by fasting go back to the idea that the body, which is identified with the human personality, is in its ordinary state nonsacred [386] and therefore unfit for the performance of a sacred act, and that it is rendered especially unfit by contact with a ritually unclean thing. ❋ Crawford Howell Toy (1877)

[386] It is by nature nonsacred, and so remains so long as it has not been made sacred by the special ceremonies that abound in savage communities. ❋ Crawford Howell Toy (1877)

Christianity, and Islam, and in minor bodies like the Essenes, Mormons, and others, but not among the Chinese, Greeks, and Romans; Brahmanism occupies a middle ground -- it regards the Veda and the accessory books as entitled to great reverence, but has never drawn the line between sacred and nonsacred writings so sharply as has been done in the group named above. ❋ Crawford Howell Toy (1877)

Ordinary food, nourishing the body and becoming a part of it, thus maintains it in its nonsacred character. ❋ Crawford Howell Toy (1877)

Body, the, as seat of life, 26; regarded as by nature nonsacred, 205 ❋ Crawford Howell Toy (1877)

During the monthlong public comment period that begins today, the archdiocese says it will accept feedback on its plan to allow nonsacred uses of the buildings. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Those who know me observe that I will happily quote sacred texts as well as nonsacred texts when they have pragmatic application. ❋ Unknown (2009)